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Two years ago, during the George Floyd protests, the San Francisco Police Department put up barricades on the sidewalk outside its Mission Station on Valencia and 17th streets. The purpose of the barricades, according to Captain Michael McEachern, was to "protect the officers while they monitored the crowd that was at times hostile.”
Two years later, the barricades are still up. Thanks to a recent Twitter thread by a Mission neighborhood resident, that might change. Except SFPD won't say when, if ever, the barricade will actually be torn down. Just that they're thinking about it.
Months ago, Luke Bornheimer, an organizer with Community Spaces SF, reached out to 311 to inquire about the purpose of the still-standing barricades. 311 followed up with SFPD, Bornheimer said, and was told the barriers needed to stay up due to unspecified ongoing protests. This week, still perplexed by SFPD's response, Bornheimer reached out to McEachern (the Mission Station captain) and tweeted about his back-and-forth. McEachern wasn't working at Mission Station when the barricades went up, but he told Bornheimer (and later confirmed to SFGATE) that he had previously inquired with the city about the possibility of having permanent barricades enacted, the polar opposite action item. These barriers would be more "aesthetically pleasing," McEachern wrote to Bornheimer, but "as of yet, our requests to the City have been ignored."
Bornheimer wrote back to McEachern that he didn't want permanent barriers on the sidewalk — he wanted them removed.
“I live in the neighborhood and have seen the metal barricades outside SFPD nearly every day for over two years," Bornheimer told SFGATE on Tuesday. "I’ve wondered about it many times. Over time, as I’ve gotten more into community organizing and advocacy around public open space, it just bothered me more and more that we essentially had a wall enclosing the sidewalk.”
On Tuesday, SFGATE also spoke to McEachern via phone, and asked about Bornheimer's complaint. At first, McEachern stuck to the original party line, that the barricades were necessary to protect cops.
"We have occasional demonstrations that have taken place, and we do occasionally have to shut down the station when those demonstrations come here," the captain explained. "There’s been no discussion about taking the [barricades] down, no complaints about them. The first one I received was yesterday.”
SFGATE asked if any police officers were injured at Mission Station during the George Floyd protests. McEachern reiterated he wasn't working there at the time, but as far as he knows, no one was. SFGATE asked for examples of recent demonstrations that threatened the safety of police officers at Mission Station, since that's the stated reason for the barricades.
“We just recently had the trans march that went by here," McEachern responded. "We didn’t have any issues with that, but that was a march attended by 10,000 people that are not always very pro-law enforcement.
"Prior to that," he continued, "I’m trying to think of other instances of lockdowns. I can’t off the top of my head think of any, but I know we’ve had at least three or four since the beginning of the year. A variety of different demonstrations have happened. This is a gathering spot for those who want to aggressively demonstrate their First Amendment rights. Sometimes that involves taking their aggression out on the police.”
If these "aggressive" demonstrations are planned on the calendar well in advance, as was the case with the only march McEachern could name, has SFPD considered removing the barricades except when large gatherings are already scheduled?
McEachern gave a surprising response — an about-face — indicating that yes, that was under consideration, and he actually thought Bornheimer's email raised good points.
“I’d be fine with that, I don’t necessarily think we need to have them up," McEachern said. "I think we can store them at the station and if need be, take them back out... I’ve asked the command staff if we can do that.”
Progress! Except, in an email to SFGATE, a public information officer with SFPD threw a jargon-y bucket of cold water on the idea: "The command staff will take the appropriate time to consider this subject. This is a dynamic issue and we try not to commit to specific timelines and decisions as we know there are many moving parts and things can come up."
The Public Works Department — which sets up and removes the barricades — confirmed to SFGATE it hasn't received a request from SFPD to free the sidewalk of the public annoyance yet.
So now, we wait, as SFPD deeply deliberates the "dynamic issue" of sidewalk barricades, which their own station captain is apparently fine with (mostly) removing.
Also in favor of getting rid of the barricades? Hillary Ronen, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors member whose district includes Mission Station.
"I think it is time that the Mission Station takes down the barricades," she wrote to SFGATE. "If there is no immediate threat justifying the barricades, they should come down."
Added Bornheimer: “It seems like something that should be relatively easy to remedy. There seems to be no imminent threat to SFPD — unless it’s imagined in their heads or they know something we don’t know — and it’s a clear issue for access and public space. I would hope this could be quickly resolved.” | https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/barricades-saga-sfpd-mission-station-17332888.php | 2022-07-27T22:45:55 | 0 | https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/barricades-saga-sfpd-mission-station-17332888.php |
Etsy announced it will close its satellite office in downtown San Francisco after a significant number of its staff said they did not plan to go back following a shift to a hybrid work model.
“Many who are currently remote have told us they do not plan to return to an office in the near future,” Kim Seymour, chief human resources officer, wrote in a news release shared on Etsy’s website Monday. “As a result, we are closing our offices in Hudson, NY and San Francisco, CA, where employee office utilization has been extremely low.”
A spokesperson for Etsy confirmed to SFGATE the office will close in September.
The San Francisco branch of the online makers marketplace was on the third floor of 20 California St. in the Financial District, according to Glassdoor. Seymour said Etsy would consolidate its operations to “a few key office ‘hubs’ in centralized regions,” including the company’s headquarters in Brooklyn, New York, as well as offices in Dublin and Mexico City.
Employees based out of the San Francisco office will be expected to transition to a fully remote model. “We’ll continue to ensure they are supported, able to work productively, and can effectively collaborate with colleagues,” Seymour wrote.
Over 7,800 square feet of office space on the third floor of 20 California St., including a reception area, two conference rooms, two breakout rooms and four call rooms, will be available for lease later this October, according to Loopnet. Offices on the second, fourth and seventh floor of the building were also on the listing.
The news comes after Etsy received “overwhelmingly positive” feedback from staff in this year’s company-wide employee engagement survey, with more than 80% of employees favorably responding to the flexible work model policies and nearly all of them stating that they felt productive and part of a team, including remote employees, Seymour wrote in the news release.
“One of our guiding principles is minimizing waste, and operating offices that go predominately unused is in direct opposition to that principle — wasting energy, capital and internal programming efforts,” Seymour wrote.
Etsy follows a long line of Bay Area tech companies shuttering their downtown offices. On Wednesday, Twitter said it would terminate its office lease in Oakland in addition to vacating its remaining office space at 1 10th Street in SoMa, where it leased several floors. And earlier this month, Salesforce listed nearly half its office space at 50 Fremont St. for lease.
Meanwhile, Block, formerly known as Square, said in June that it would not renew the lease on its former headquarters in the Mid-Market neighborhood. And in April, PayPal said it would close its office at 425 Market St. between First and Fremont streets.
"The pandemic, in particular, has taught us there are many ways in which we can work effectively while providing our employees with flexibility," PayPal told SFGATE at the time. | https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/etsy-closing-san-francisco-office-17332604.php | 2022-07-27T22:46:01 | 1 | https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/etsy-closing-san-francisco-office-17332604.php |
An appellate court handed the San Antonio Independent School district a victory Wednesday, denying Texas’ efforts to squelch a vaccine mandate for its employees that it imposed almost a year ago in an effort to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
The victory may be short-lived, as Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton might appeal the ruling to the Texas Supreme Court — again.
The school district’s effort to force its employees to get the vaccine has been frozen in the courts since October.
In August of last year, shortly before the Food and Drug Administration granted full approval of then-available COVID-19 vaccines, former Superintendent Pedro Martinez required that the 7,000 employees of San Antonio’s third largest school district get vaccinated against the virus. He set a deadline of Oct. 15.
It was a direct challenge to Gov. Greg Abbott’s emergency order that banned COVID-19 vaccine mandates — at least it was after Abbott quickly amended his order to include vaccines approved by the FDA — and Paxton filed suit Sept. 9 to block the policy.
Wednesday’s ruling from the San Antonio-based Fourth Court of Appeals ended a Texas Supreme Court temporary injunction that had put the policy on hold just hours before the district’s deadline for employees to be vaccinated. At the time, the high court said it was expressing no view on the merits of the state’s lawsuit but allowing it time to be decided.
A trial to decide the lawsuit has been delayed at least twice. Martinez left SAISD last fall to become superintendent of Chicago Public Schools. The coronavirus’ delta and omicron variants severely disrupted the 2021-2022 school year. And the vaccination mandate sat on the shelf.
About 45,000 children attend SAISD schools. The district communications chief, Laura Short, issued a statement Wednesday that said the district was “gratified to learn” that the latest ruling upheld its ability “to take action to protect the safety and health of students, staff, and visitors.”
“Our district led the way with our response to COVID-19,” and about 80 percent of its full-time employees opted to get the shot, she said.
But the vaccine mandate remains on pause, and nobody was ever disciplined for refusing it, Short said.
The state argued that the district had acted outside its authority because Abbott’s order stated that “no governmental entity can compel any individual to receive a COVID-19 vaccine,” and it “suspended relevant statutes” that could allow them to, according to the appeals ruling.
The school district argued that the Texas Disaster Act does not give the governor that authority. In a 12-page ruling written by Justice Irene Rios, the Fourth Court said the state’s Education Code permits school districts to issue vaccine mandates.
The ruling stated that the Texas Disaster Act “expressly limits the Governor’s commander-in-chief authority to state agencies, state boards, and state commissions having emergency responsibilities” and “does not empower the governor to act as the commander in chief of ... local government entities.”
Short said the lawsuit continues to matter.
“The school district’s ability to provide for the health and safety of its staff and students is essential, and this court ruling makes clear that the governor may not override the school district’s statutory authority,” she said.
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MAQUOKETA, Iowa — The Maquoketa Caves State Park is set to reopen on Thursday, less than one week after a man shot and killed a couple and their daughter in the campground.
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources made the announcement Wednesday that the state park will be reopening for regular day use at 10 a.m. Thursday, July 28.
However, the park's campground, where the shooting took place, will remain closed until further notice. Every camper who had a reservation through July 31 has been given a refund, according to the department.
Maquoketa Caves State Park closed on Friday, July 22 after a gunman, alleged to be 23-year-old Anthony Sherwin, shot and killed three members of the Schmidt family; 42-year-olds Luke and Sarah and their 6-year-old daughter, Lula.
Their 9-year-old son Arlo managed to escape and survived the shooting. Authorities said Sherwin then went on to take his own life.
Iowa DNR is continuing to work with the Division of Criminal Investigations on the investigation, alongside local law enforcement and the Department of Public Safety.
A temporary memorial site honoring the Schmidts is being set up at the park's entrance sign near the Visitor Center. Anyone with camping-related questions is asked to send an email to iowa.stateparks@dnr.iowa.gov.
Watch more coverage of the shooting on News 8's YouTube channel | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/maquoketa-caves-reopening-thursday-july-28/526-0334669b-6864-4744-bcf6-1db45a202fc8 | 2022-07-27T23:05:49 | 1 | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/maquoketa-caves-reopening-thursday-july-28/526-0334669b-6864-4744-bcf6-1db45a202fc8 |
FLINT, Mich. (WJRT) - With inflation at a 40-year high, people are paying more for everything. Many are struggling to make ends meet and put food on the table.
The Food Bank of Eastern Michigan knows how tough it is as people who are needing their help is near record levels.
But, in this current economic climate the food bank is looking for more donations to help them meet the rising costs of getting food to the people who need it most.
They supply food for 400+ partner agencies in 22 counties from mid-Michigan to the bridge. It makes for a pretty full plate for the Food Bank of Eastern Michigan.
"What's really difficult is the volume that we need to procure to make sure we can cover each of our areas," said Kara Ross, the President and CEO of the Food Bank of Eastern Michigan.
Ross has been working in food relief for 25 years. She said she had never seen things as bad as during the height of the pandemic.
"We saw 40% new people coming to the network. Then it did go down for a while," she said.
With the economy in a downward spiral and inflation reaching record highs, Ross said she is seeing numbers starting to trend upward.
"What we are seeing is a lot of our friends that are working two or three part-time jobs are struggling again," she said. "They are not able to cope with the rising fuel costs and food costs." That is why Ross believes the agency is seeing an uptick of people needing their services. "Right back to the same numbers we were seeing during the pandemic."
The food bank gets resources from government commodities and from their retail partners, but it is not always enough to meet the need, forcing the agency to buy what they don't have.
The price to get the food from the source to their facility to someone's table has skyrocketed.
"It's very challenging right now with transportation, not only with fuel costs, but diesel fuel its almost double what it was last year," she said.
Ross also said the cost for third party carriers to bring semi-truck loads of food to their agency has nearly tripled in price.
$1.00 goes a long way at the food bank, it can feed six people. They rely heavily on financial donations to help meet the hunger needs of the community.
For more information on how to donate click HERE | https://www.abc12.com/news/local/food-bank-hit-by-rising-costs/article_73082394-0dee-11ed-9953-97ac0e7e10eb.html | 2022-07-27T23:06:45 | 1 | https://www.abc12.com/news/local/food-bank-hit-by-rising-costs/article_73082394-0dee-11ed-9953-97ac0e7e10eb.html |
SAGINAW, Mich. (WJRT) - Less than a week away from the primary election, Saginaw county residents are getting ready to decide whether the Saginaw Intermediate School District should receive $8.6 million in a special education millage that would levy funds for ten years.
“I think one of the biggest misconceptions out there that I've heard among parents is that it's a special education millage. So, some of the parents who don't necessarily have kids in our special education services think it's not going to benefit them,” said Hemlock parent Sarah Baird.
Baird says it's important to understand the millage is beneficial to all students in the district.
“Saginaw ISD is calling the special education millage enhancement on behalf of all 12 of our local school districts, it's a 1.5 increase to our current 1.9 mill request,” said David Krantz, Director of Special Education Saginaw ISD.
Krantz says, if passed, it will alleviate an $8 million shortfall in special education countywide, as shortages have been paid from the operating budgets of the county's schools. And the funds would go back into the general fund of every school district in Saginaw County for them to decide how to use.
“We polled every superintendent in Saginaw County and the things they would like to use this money for are mental health supports, behavior supports, reading specialists, smaller class sizes, improvements to safety in their school districts, improvements to transportation,” he said.
One youth ambassador believes putting funds toward mental health support for students would be of good use.
“Especially because mental health is so important right now, if the funding went toward mental health. Students would get services that they don't have and that they do need,” said Emily Smith, Chesaning High youth ambassador.
District leaders say the fund shortage has reduced the amount of revenue for other programs and services for all of the county's 26,140 students and that the millage would offer school's budget relief.
Some say the trickledown effect is important to the entire community.
“The stronger our schools are the stronger our community is,” said Baird.
Leaders say if the proposal is not approved, the school district will be required to continue invoicing their local school districts and public academies over $8million annually for unfunded special education costs. | https://www.abc12.com/news/local/saginaw-isd-special-education-proposal-would-impact-all-students/article_972eabb0-0df0-11ed-a277-c3c80421fee6.html | 2022-07-27T23:06:52 | 0 | https://www.abc12.com/news/local/saginaw-isd-special-education-proposal-would-impact-all-students/article_972eabb0-0df0-11ed-a277-c3c80421fee6.html |
BALCH SPRINGS, Texas — In a few hours Monday evening, flames consumed 35 acres and damaged 26 homes in Balch Springs.
City officials said the fire started just after 3 p.m. Monday along Interstate 20 and Beltline Road.
They said the owner of a grass field near the home had received two code compliance warnings and a court summons before they decided to cut the grass Monday. Mowers hit metal, which caused sparks and then a large fire.
Michael Jaramillo’s family had lived in their home 15 years before flames consumed it Monday.
“Around 4 p.m., I started getting messages from my brother,” he said. “It hasn’t really sunk in at the moment.”
By the time, he made it back from work, his mother was in tears and his home was destroyed.
“The first thing that comes to my mind are the pictures that I had of my brother and sister when they were babies,” he said.
Nearly a dozen departments rushed to the fire that ate through 35 acres, damaging 26 homes. Nine homes are burned beyond repair. City officials estimate $6 million in losses.
“This was an accident, an unfortunate accident,” Balch Springs Fire Chief Eric Neal said. “It’s just the conditions right now are unique. We’ve been really dry over the past couple of months. When you add winds to that, it’s just a recipe for disaster and that’s what happened yesterday.”
Willy Gomez’s younger brother was the only one home when police banged on their front door. He grabbed the dog and ran as flames raced towards their home.
“Everything’s memories, and it’s really just memories that you stick with,” Gomez said.
When the only thing left is memories, people hold onto them tighter.
“I really do remember when we first came here, when we first took a look at the house,” Gomez said through tears.
Fourteen years after they moved in, only dust, ash and charred bricks remain.
“This was our house, and this is the only thing I’ve got now, and I’ve just got to start all over,” he said.
No one was hurt but it’s still too early for the families who lost all they own to appreciate good news.
“I really feel bad for my parents,” Gomez said. “Every day that I’ve been living, I remember they get up and they go to work every day for it just to be gone like this.”
“It’s something horrible,” Jaramillo said. “Just trying to understand what to do next.”
City officials walked the block, sending people to the Balch Springs rec center for information on how to move forward and simply how to get basic needs like clothes and food.
“We really don’t know what’s next,” Gomez said. “We really don’t know what’s next.”
Ways to help
If you would like to help those affected, please direct all donations to the Opal J. Smith Food Pantry located at 2919 Balch Springs Road. The contact number is 972-895-3117. Officials say the greatest need in monetary donations.
Below is a list of verified GoFundMe pages for residents affected by the fire:
Greater Golden Gate Baptist Church Rev. Fred Jackson house was destroyed The congregation is helping with recovery costs.
Laura Cruz, who is 35 weeks pregnant, her husband and daughter lost everything.
Seven family members lost their home and everything inside.
This family of seven is in need of help after losing their home. Their elderly mother is bed-bound.
The Camp family needs emergency items, including clothes, after losing their home. | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/families-get-first-look-at-destruction-from-balch-springs-grass-fire/287-9e632087-37cb-4b0a-998b-7cc3974b505c | 2022-07-27T23:07:20 | 1 | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/families-get-first-look-at-destruction-from-balch-springs-grass-fire/287-9e632087-37cb-4b0a-998b-7cc3974b505c |
TEXAS, USA — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott will speak with Len Cannon Wednesday live on KHOU 11 News at 5 p.m. on several different topics in Texas, including the Uvalde school shooting, abortion rights and monkeypox.
This interview comes as monkeypox cases continue to climb across Texas and the official judgment on Roe v Wade was released, which sets off the state's "trigger law."
And there are still many questions that Texans have on the issues that led to the Uvalde school shooting.
We will update this page with direct quotes from Abbott minutes after the interview airs on KHOU 11 News.
You can watch live on KHOU 11 News, KHOU.com, the KHOU 11 app, Roku, Fire TV and YouTube. | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/texas/governor-abbott-uvalde-school-shooting-monkeypox-abortions/285-974bcf33-0441-417f-8cae-4dfb304fc6c0 | 2022-07-27T23:07:26 | 1 | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/texas/governor-abbott-uvalde-school-shooting-monkeypox-abortions/285-974bcf33-0441-417f-8cae-4dfb304fc6c0 |
BEXAR COUNTY, Texas — Bexar County Sheriff's deputies detained four children after allegedly taking part in a TikTok challenge shooting a water bead blaster at random people.
On Sunday evening around 7 p.m., deputies received several repots of a shooting near the 1000 block of Painted Daisy in the Alamo Ranch area.
Residents told deputies they were struck by a "water bead blaster" gun from a vehicle that was passing by. Deputies were able to find the car and found four children, ranging in age from 11 to 15-years-old, with two "Splat R Ball" guns.
Authorities also learned the kids were driving a parent's car. Deputies said the incident should serve as a warning for those considering taking part in the challenge -- "You will be arrested."
This comes after KENS 5 spoke to a 13-year-old boy in Schertz who said he and his friends were hit at least 25 times. The incident happened in May.
"I thought they were real guns," he said. "Me and my friend got off the swings and started running."
The teen said people wearing masks got out of a car and started shooting at them. He said he and his friends ran, and at first they thought it was a real gun.
"I tripped over a rock and fell," Jarrett Aguinaga said. "They started chasing us and started shooting at us, hitting us. It smacked our skin and it hurt really bad." He described the pain to be like "a really hard ice cube hitting your leg."
"If you are ever become a victim of this type of incident, please call 911 immediately so law enforcement can respond and apprehend the responsible suspects," BCSO said.
See the full Facebook post here. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/4-children-detained-splat-guns-tiktok-challenge-bexar-county/273-5efd6c3d-0a24-42d8-826f-49936c9216bf | 2022-07-27T23:14:20 | 0 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/4-children-detained-splat-guns-tiktok-challenge-bexar-county/273-5efd6c3d-0a24-42d8-826f-49936c9216bf |
A charity car wash took place Saturday at CrossFit OTG of Egg Harbor Township. Proceeds from the event went to Beacon Animal Rescue, a no-kill dog and cat rescue that serves Cape May and Atlantic counties. Cars were hand washed by CrossFit OTG's staff and members, food and beverages were served, and Beacon was there with some of its adorable adoptables.
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Offshore wind power is either moving far too quickly or can’t arrive soon enough, depending on which of the commenters was speaking at a lengthy hearing for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management on Tuesday evening.
Over the course of about four hours in a meeting held remotely, proponents and critics of the Ocean Wind 1 project squared off, with those in favor citing jobs and climate change and opponents describing the project and others like it as the industrialization of the coastline.
This was the third and final public hearing planned to accept comments on a draft environmental impact statement on the Ocean Wind proposal, set to put up to 98 wind turbines about 15 miles off the coast of Atlantic and Cape May counties. The two prior meetings this month lasted about as long.
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The group also suggested offshore wind in New Jersey begin with a pilot project, “before we rush ahead with the industrialization of hundreds of thousands of acres of our invaluable ocean waters,” said Zachary Klein, the policy attorney for the group.
Ocean Wind is one of 28 lease areas BOEM is considering for offshore wind, bureau staff said Tuesday. Ocean Wind 2 received permits from the Board of Public Utilities in 2021, with more projects in the pipeline.
President Joe Biden is promising “strong executive action” to combat climate change, despite setbacks that have restricted his ability to regulate carbon emissions and boost clean energy such as wind and solar power. The Supreme Court last month limited how the nation’s main anti-air pollution law can be used to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. And this past week, Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin said he wants to delay sweeping environmental legislation that Democrats have pushed as central to achieving Biden’s ambitious climate goals. Biden has pledged to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030, compared with 2005 levels. On Friday, he said “action on climate change and clean energy remains more urgent than ever.″
The turbines will need to be able to stand up to major hurricanes, Klein said, and have the potential to interfere with radar, suggesting this could complicate future water rescues if boats get in trouble within the lease area.
“From the offset, Clean Ocean Action is not opposed to offshore wind, but the ocean does deserve protection and we are very concerned about the trajectory of offshore wind proposals and have many questions,” said Kari Martin, the advocacy campaign manager with the organization. “The size and scope and scale of these projects being considered simultaneously is alarming.”
Some see urgency
Several other speakers backed the proposal, including labor representatives who said the project will bring good-paying union jobs to New Jersey and improve American industry. Debra Coyle with the New Jersey Work Environmental Council said offshore wind can deliver 83,000 jobs by 2035 and generate $25 billion in economic impact.
But many of the comments in favor of the project also focused on environmental issues, especially climate change and the rising seas and powerful storms expected to accompany it.
“Across the U.S., New Jersey is one of the most vulnerable states to sea level rise. Over 70,000 homes are expected to see at least one major flood a year by 2050,” said Cameron Foster with the New Jersey Organizing Project.
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management on Friday released the Draft Environmental Impact Stat…
Clean energy will be needed to protect the beach towns and boardwalks in New Jersey, he argued.
David Pringle, speaking on behalf of Clean Water Action, suggested the project replaces the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant in Ocean County and the coal-fired B.L. England plant in Cape May County, where power generated offshore is set to enter the grid to power homes.
He said he visited the Block Island wind farm off Rhode Island and took a boat under the turbines.
“They’re beautiful. They’re awesome, and I am excited about these projects,” he said, citing their potential to replace fossil fuels. “We should be celebrating this. This is desperately needed. We are in a climate emergency.”
Dan Ginolfi, listed as a Washington, D.C., lobbyist with Coastal Strategies LLC, cited the nuclear power plant in Salem County, which uses a fraction of the space the wind turbines would require and has double the generating capacity.
“The county is not opposed to offshore wind but has major concerns with the process by which it is being developed and the lack of meaningful stakeholder engagement in Cape May County,” Ginolfi said. “The vast majority of residents are unaware of this development, hundreds of thousands of fishermen are likely to lose their jobs, thousands of marine mammals will be harassed as well as birds and benthic creatures and habitats.”
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The benthic zone refers to the bottom of the ocean.
Locals weigh in
Ocean City has criticized a plan to run cables across the island municipality, and officials there have been skeptical of the project, while Upper Township has supported the plan, which will keep power flowing at the Beesleys Point plant, as proposed.
On Wednesday, Upper Township Committee member Kim Hayes said the township had a single request of BOEM, to move the connection to the power grid about 500 feet to better fit with plans to revitalize the former power plant site with commercial and residential development.
Joan Marie Ebert, an Ocean City homeowner, said few of the second homeowners who own most of the property in that town know about the wind power plan. She said she does not deny climate change is real, nor oppose wind energy.
“What I am opposed to is an aggressive, fast-tracked wind farm planned 15 miles off the coast that will desecrate the ocean view and destroy tourism in South Jersey beach communities,” she said.
Those who missed the hearings still have time to review the proposal and submit written comments. A virtual meeting room and instructions for how to submit comments can be found at boem.gov/renewable-energy/state-activities/ocean-wind-1. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/draft-of-environmental-impact-statement-on-ocean-wind-gets-third-lengthy-hearing/article_d373890e-0dde-11ed-a310-a7b0528c3dea.html | 2022-07-27T23:16:33 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/draft-of-environmental-impact-statement-on-ocean-wind-gets-third-lengthy-hearing/article_d373890e-0dde-11ed-a310-a7b0528c3dea.html |
PHILADELPHIA — Alec Bohm hit a go-ahead single in a five-run fifth inning and added an RBI double in the sixth, helping the Philadelphia Phillies beat Atlanta 7-2 Wednesday to take two of three from the Braves.
Kyle Gibson (6-4) allowed two runs and four hits in six innings, and the Phillies (51-47) tied St. Louis for the National League’s final wild card berth, pending the Cardinals’ game at Toronto later Wednesday.
“This is a competitive year and we’ve battled back and forth all the way along,” Bohm said. “It’s going to be an exciting finish here.”
“This was definitely big for us,” said catcher J.T. Realmuto, who was 2-for-4 with two RBIs on Wednesday. “The Cubs series didn’t go as planned. But it was good to win this series and beat a really good team in this division.”
Bohm, the Phillies’ No. 7 hitter, extended his career-best hitting streak to 12 games and has consecutive multihit games for the first time since reaching the majors in 2020. He is 20-for-41 (.488) with a 1.218 OPS and nine RBIs during the spurt, raising his average to .293.
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Errors by Charlie Morton (5-5) and second baseman Robinson Canó contributed to the Phillies’ fifth-inning rally. Atlanta entered with 40 errors, third-fewest in the majors behind Seattle (32) and St. Louis (33).
“We shot ourselves in the foot a couple of times,” Braves manager Brian Snitker said. “We really couldn’t get anything going offensively.”
Bryson Stott walked leading off the fifth and took third when Morton bounced a pickoff attempt past first. Didi Gregorius’ RBI grounder deflected off Canó’s glove and into right field, Odúbel Herrera hit a run-scoring single and Kyle Schwarber followed with a sacrifice fly. Realmuto capped the rally with a two-run single as he extended his hitting streak to nine games where he’s posted a .438 batting average.
“He’s swinging the bat well with authority making solid contact and he’s had some really big hits lately,” Phillies interim manager Rob Thomson said. “He’s a really good offensive player when he’s swinging at strikes, using the field and letting it go.”
Morton, 0-2 in his last three starts, allowed five runs — four earned — and six hits in five innings.
“I just kept wanting to keep them in situations where a ground ball was a double play and limit the extra base hits,” Morton said. “That kept the pressure off myself.”
Matt Olson hit his 20th homer. a two-run drive in the sixth off the batter’s eye in center. He has five homers against the Phillies this season, including two in two days. Olson has seven homers at Citizens Bank Park out of his nine career hits.
Atlanta has lost eight of its last nine series finales. Austin Riley went 0 for 4, ending a career-best 18-game hitting streak.
“We were probably an out away from winning the series,” Snitker said, referring to Monday night’s 6-4 loss inm on an eighth-inning homer. “We’ve had to fight through adversities and we’ll have to do that again.”
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7-year-old girl dies in rear-end car crash in Pima County
A 7-year-old girl died Wednesday from injuries sustained in a car crash near Vail.
At around 8 a.m. Tuesday, Pima County Sheriff’s Department deputies responded to a collision involving a passenger car and an SUV at Sahuarita Road and Sycamore Ridge Trail, according to the Sheriff’s Department.
Investigators from the Sheriff’s Office Traffic Unit determined the SUV, a Dodge Journey, was stopped on Sahuarita Road waiting to make a left turn onto Sycamore Ridge Trail when the passenger car, a Hyundai Elantra, rear-ended it, according to the Sheriff's Department.
The department said the Elantra was occupied by three people, including two children in the back seat. One of the children, a 7-year-old girl, was transported to the hospital with critical injuries. She died on Wednesday, the Sheriff's Office said.
The other occupants of the Elantra, along with two occupants of the SUV, were transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to the Sheriff’s Department.
As of Wednesday afternoon, the Sheriff’s Department said an investigation was ongoing.
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Gilbert Town Council hopefuls talk leadership, growth and how to make the town more welcoming
More than a dozen Gilbert residents attended a forum Monday to hear from six of the 10 candidates running for the four open seats on the Town Council in the Aug. 2 election.
Candidates, via a moderator, fielded questions from the audience and resident submissions.
Lynne King Smith, who ran for mayor in 2020, hosted the forum at her downtown business, Thrive Coworking for Women.
Candidates responded to questions for the better part of two hours, delving into issues such as leadership, creating a welcoming community and handling growth as the town exceeds 270,000 residents and nears buildout.
Susie Jackson, who has lived in Gilbert for 18 years, said she attended the forum because she wanted to hear directly from the candidates instead of just seeing the online rhetoric.
She's looking for "representatives who are kind and are looking for the best interests of our citizens."
One of her top concerns is ensuring the Town Council has a good working relationship with the school boards in Gilbert.
The town, which saw three council members and the mayor resign in 2020 for varied reasons, is guaranteed more change this year as Councilmembers Laurin Hendrix and Aimee Yentes did not seek reelection.
Leadership style important to residents
The past couple years, Gilbert has had its share of council infighting, ethics probes and open meeting law violations. Several of the questions dug into candidates decision-making, trust and transparency.
Scott September, appointed to the council in 2020 and making his first run for election to the seat, was asked how he approaches voting. He said it's important to know how his vote would impact the community. He said he doesn't always enter a meeting with a set decision because he wants to hear from the public and his colleagues.
Bill Spence, answering a similar question, said he looks at the data and what residents want. Spence was appointed to the council in 2020 but lost his election bid later that year to Hendrix. "I have to go with the people," he said.
Michael Clark, who owns a sales company, was asked how the council can become more accessible to residents. He said it starts with transparency. If the council is more open, residents will be more engaged, he said.
Yung Koprowski, appointed to the council in 2020 and seeking her first election to the seat, said council members must be good communicators and accessible to the community. She said she's always available via email or phone.
Growth and future of Gilbert in question
Gilbert catapulted from a town of about 5,700 residents in 1980 to an estimated 271,500 today. That's expected to top 300,000 residents as the town reaches buildout by 2030. As always in Arizona, growth was a hot topic with candidates asked about housing, public transit, and .
Candidate Jim Torgeson, who owns a sign shop, said he is concerned that owning a home in Gilbert has become increasingly unaffordable for many but that denser development brings its own set of problems, including demands for water. He understand that residents may feel like they're losing their community with the addition of apartment complexes and renters who he said tend not to stay in one place for too long. He said he would rather see multi-family housing developers use land to build condominiums and other non-rental options.
Candidate Chuck Bongiovanni, who runs a senior residential home franchise, said the underlying sentiment against high density is really saying "we don't want those people here."
He disagrees with that, but also said that high density apartments aren't set up to be attainable. "They're really expensive."
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"We're creating an environment where we're telling our kids they can't afford houses and we're not doing anything on the other side for the elderly" Bongiovanni said. "We're losing two generations in this town."
Koprowski was asked if the town was doing enough about infrastructure for the next generation. She pointed to the $515 million transportation bond that voters narrowly passed last year that will help maintain roads and address congestion as the town grows. Reliable internet service also has been a large component of the infrastructure conversation. Koprowski pointed to the town's plans build up broadband for residents to continue its 'City of the Future' mission. Earlier this year, the council put out a call for proposals to expand high-speed internet access across the town.
Spence said he doesn't think the town is doing enough with infrastructure. During the height of the pandemic, he heard from residents asking for more outdoor amenities. We can do more to create a bike and pedestrian friendly community, he said.
Is Gilbert a welcoming community?
Several questions submitted by residents revolved around whether Gilbert is a welcoming community. Gilbert is a hold out when it comes to passing any non-discriminatory ordinances. Meanwhile cities like Mesa have passed ordinances to protect LGBTQ residents from discrimination.
The Town Council rebuffed the idea of providing gender confirming surgery under its healthcare coverage in March 2021. Mayor Bridgette Peterson said it was important to offer such benefits to keep the town competitive. Korpowski voted "yes" to align the town with industry standards, while September voted "no" to avoid social policy issues. The measure failed.
Bongiovanni and Torgeson were both asked if Gilbert should cover all medical surgeries, including gender confirmation surgery, under the town's healthcare plan in order to keep the town competitive.
Bongiovanni said it was a human resource issue. "If other cities and towns are offering this as a benefit, we need to offer it as well," he said.
Torgeson said if the surgery was an extra cost to taxpayers he would not support it, but if it didn't cost the town a dime he wouldn't mind it.
Torgeson also was asked if the town and council are doing enough to recognize diversity in the community.
He said as a straight white man he doesn't think about it that much. He said as he talked with residents during the campaign, no one raised that concern to him. Towards the end of the forum, Torgeson said he realized, based on the number of questions on the topic, that it was was a concern for some.
Clark was asked how he would make members of the LGBTQ community feel more welcomed in Gilbert. "Anybody who lives here in Gilbert is taxpayer. You deserve to be heard," he said.
If a constituent came to him with those concerns, he said he would take the time to sit, talk and learn how he could help them find a welcoming place in the community.
September, answering the same question, said getting to know your neighbors and learning from them is important. He said he would express deep regret if he heard residents that residents felt unwelcome in the community.
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Candidates not at the forum were Bobbie Buchli and Mario Chicas, who both said they had to work, Bus Obayomi, who said he was out of town, and write-in candidate Garrett Glover, who said the invite landed in his email's junk folder and he saw it too late.
The Republic previously asked the council hopefuls to questions on some of the key issues facing the town. You can read their responses here.
Reporter Maritza Dominguez can be reached at maritza.dominguez@arizonarepublic.com or 480-271-0646. Follow her on Twitter @maritzacdom.
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Children play in Orah Brandt Park's splash pad on Wednesday in Nampa.
NAMPA — The overflow parking at Orah Brandt Park spilled onto Cherry Lane on Wednesday morning. Over 100 attendees came to the ribbon cutting for the park’s new splash pad, excited to cool off.
Before the ribbon was even cut, dozens of children rushed into the splash pad clad in swimwear.
“Having the splash pad next door gives an opportunity for parents to spend time with their kids,” Nampa Mayor Debbie Kling said.
As phase two of the park’s construction plan, the splash pad is the first fee-free one located in Nampa. It is now open daily from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
“The timing couldn’t be better with the hot days we have coming,” Kling said. “Needless to say, there's a huge demand.”
Plans are underway for a similar splash pad at Midway Park, according to Kling.
Parks and Recreation Director Darrin Johnson said attendance for the splash pad ribbon cutting was more than the original playground opening, with twice the number of people.
“I expected that we'd have a lot of people here, but yeah, this certainly beat the expectations in terms of the number of people that we thought would be here for the opening today,” Johnson said.
Construction for the splash pad began around January, according to Johnson, and further additions are in the city’s plans.
Phase three of park construction will include additional picnic shelters, a disc golf course, pickleball courts, a baseball field, a soccer field and a swimming pool. These expansions are expected to break ground next summer, according to a press release from the city, and will grow the park to 30 acres.
The location of the park has been key to community interest, Johnson said.
“There's not a lot of parks on the north side,” Johnson said. “It’s going to be convenient for North Nampa residents. The whole park is going to provide health benefits, fitness benefits and just the opportunity to play.”
Tiffany Ramsey came to the splash pad’s opening with her 11-year-old daughter. A resident of Nampa for over 15 years, Ramsey was happy with the new addition.
“I know Boise has a lot and we go over there a lot more for splash pads,” Ramsey said. “So when I heard (the new splash pad) was in Nampa I was like, ‘Oh, that's awesome.’”
Ramsey first heard of the splash pad through an email from Parks and Recreation. When she told her daughter, she insisted that they had to go.
“She was so super excited. In fact, we had to rearrange our schedule so that we could come to the splash pad today,” Ramsey said. “She just did not want to miss it at all.”
As a parent, Ramsey finds activities like this to be a moment to relax while her kid has fun.
“It gets her some water, it gets me some time to do my own thing,” she said.
Still, living on the other side of Nampa, Ramsey hopes to see similar additions across the city.
“I'm glad they're there making new spots for more fun, more family-friendly places,” Ramsey said. “Making more things accessible in Nampa and not just all in Boise and Meridian.” | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/nampa-park-welcomes-new-splash-pad-during-summer-heat/article_b4391101-faef-5ca0-9315-412254e6cfc5.html | 2022-07-27T23:25:09 | 1 | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/nampa-park-welcomes-new-splash-pad-during-summer-heat/article_b4391101-faef-5ca0-9315-412254e6cfc5.html |
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Mudiwa, Zoo Boise's female lion, was euthanized on Tuesday morning.
Zoo Boise announced Wednesday that its female lion, Mudiwa, was euthanized Tuesday morning due to declining health.
“This is a hard situation for all of our staff, volunteers and visitors,” Zoo Boise Director Gene Peacock said. “It is never easy to say goodbye to one of our beloved animals. There is no doubt Mudiwa’s presence in Boise has made a strong impression and her legacy will live on.”
Test results following the Mudiwa’s death confirmed the lion was suffering from kidney cancer that had metastasized to her intestines, liver and lungs, according to a press release.
Mudiwa was 22 years old. The mean life expectancy for lions in captivity is 17 years.
According to the release, zoo staff started to notice something was off when Mudiwa began to lose weight and her appetite fluctuated dramatically. During a series of exams over the past six months, the zoo’s animal care and veterinary staff performed x-rays, an ultrasound, fine needle aspirates, and multiple bloodwork tests to determine a cause. The results showed the lion’s kidneys had a protein buildup and its kidneys were working at 33% at the most.
Mudiwa’s physical health, food and fluid intake, and desire to move drastically declined over the past week, which led zoo veterinary staff to make the decision to euthanize the big cat, per the release.
Mudiwa arrived at Zoo Boise in 2008 along with her sister, Obadiah, and male lion, Jabari. They were the first lions to join the Zoo Boise family. Zoo Boise is still home to 9-year-old male lion, Revan.
“Mudiwa has been a mainstay at Zoo Boise for many years and we appreciate the community’s support during this time,” Boise Parks and Recreation Director Doug Holloway said. “She was an important part of our zoo family and she will be missed.” | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/zoo-boise-lion-euthanized-due-to-declining-health/article_f10602a1-49c8-5fbe-9006-43d8cee64211.html | 2022-07-27T23:25:15 | 1 | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/zoo-boise-lion-euthanized-due-to-declining-health/article_f10602a1-49c8-5fbe-9006-43d8cee64211.html |
Gaylord, area communities to receive $500,000 in tornado aid
GAYLORD — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Wednesday approved over $500,000 in state funding for Gaylord and surrounding communities that were affected by the May 20 tornado.
The funds were made available through the Disaster and Emergency Contingency Fund, which is used when communities demonstrate an exhaustion of local resources during a disaster or emergency. The approval comes after the Federal Emergency Management Agency denied the governor’s request for a Presidential Disaster Declaration.
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“May’s devastating thunderstorms and tornado strained local resources in Otsego County, and this $500,000 in assistance will help cover some local response and recovery costs,” Whitmer said in a statement. “The Gaylord community has made great progress in the months since the tornado, but we know there is more work to be done. No matter what the federal government does or does not do, we will get the Gaylord community what they need to recover and rebuild."
The governor has approved the following awards:
- City of Gaylord: $250,000
- Bagley Township: $73,085
- Hayes Township: $45,058
- Livingston Township: $50,509
- Otsego County: $90,954
Disaster and Emergency Contingency Fund awards can be applied toward the immediate prevention, response and recovery of a disaster or emergency, as well as cover overtime for public employees, contracts used during the response, shelter supplies, gasoline used during the response, and repair of public buildings and infrastructure.
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Homeowners, renters, businesses and nonprofit organizations in need of assistance repairing or rebuilding after the storm can still apply for low-interest loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration at DisasterLoanAssistance.sba.gov/ela/s.
“This funding will allow the continued recovery and rebuilding that the Gaylord area has started. Our community is strong and it is evident in the support and assistance from neighbors and citizens alike," said State Sen. Jim Stamas, (R-Midland).
State Rep. Ken Borton (R-Gaylord) added that “After the tornado hit our community, the people of Gaylord have grown closer together, and our work to rebuild damaged homes and local businesses — and help people get back on their feet — continues."
On May 20, an EF-3 tornado touched down in Otsego County and Gaylord, killing two, injuring 44 and causing millions of dollars in damages. | https://www.petoskeynews.com/story/news/local/gaylord/2022/07/27/gaylord-area-communities-receive-500-000-tornado-aid/10164461002/ | 2022-07-27T23:28:43 | 0 | https://www.petoskeynews.com/story/news/local/gaylord/2022/07/27/gaylord-area-communities-receive-500-000-tornado-aid/10164461002/ |
A Long Island woman was killed and her body found mutilated in her backyard after she was attacked by a dog that belonged to her step-son, who died just weeks ago, according to police.
After leaving for work Wednesday morning, the woman’s husband returned to the home on Terrace Court in Albertson around 1 p.m. to find his 70-year-old wife mangled in the backyard, the pit bull still going at her body.
The man called police, and an officer who responded to the scene shot the dog after the canine turned on him. The officer was taken to the hospital, police said, traumatized after what he had seen in the yard.
The 7-year-old pit bull belonged to the woman’s step-son, who died just a few weeks ago in a motorcycle crash, according to police. He and the dog had lived at the parents’ house, and the parents had been looking after the canine since the step-son’s death.
There is no criminality suspected and the dog is believed to be responsible for the woman’s death. The victim has not yet been identified.
There were no prior reports or complaints about the dog at the address. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/long-island-woman-found-dead-mutilated-by-family-dog-in-backyard-police/3797944/ | 2022-07-27T23:29:12 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/long-island-woman-found-dead-mutilated-by-family-dog-in-backyard-police/3797944/ |
INDIANAPOLIS — DoorDash is going to help get quality food and groceries to so-called food deserts in Indianapolis.
The company is partnering with local nonprofit Faith, Hope and Love Community and the city to help fight food insecurity. They say it is hunger relief delivered straight to your doorstep.
"Access to healthy and affordable food cannot be a luxury in our city, it is a right," said Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett.
With the help of funds from the American Rescue Plan, they partnered to develop the United Food Mission and bring Project Dash to Indianapolis. This collaboration will provide free at-home delivery of groceries to families in need in Marion County.
"This is a huge step towards alleviating hunger, because we can actually bridge the gap between the homebound and shut-ins with the food sources," said Merlin Gonzalez, president of Faith, Hope and Love Community.
They handed over the first boxes to DoorDash drivers on Wednesday. Their goal is to deliver 1,000 boxes of food a week by the end of the year. DoorDash will cover the cost of delivery up to ten miles from the donation site. They said this partnership is more important than ever.
"Not only the gasoline prices that are affecting everyone's pocketbook and the cost of food and the inflation index, the need for food has never been greater in this marketplace," said Faith, Hope and Love Community volunteer Darrin Gray.
Organizers said this is about more than food delivery.
"Many people are hopeless. Sometimes we experience that being there just to speak in a personal one-on-one way is better than just the food we deliver," said Gonzalez.
They are feeding both the soul and the body at the same time.
For more information on how to volunteer with Faith Hope and Love Community, visit their website. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/city-nonprofit-team-up-to-doordash-deliver-groceries-to-families-in-need/531-cf44e89c-972d-4d2a-8faf-62c2d393c826 | 2022-07-27T23:29:50 | 0 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/city-nonprofit-team-up-to-doordash-deliver-groceries-to-families-in-need/531-cf44e89c-972d-4d2a-8faf-62c2d393c826 |
INDIANAPOLIS — Police say accidental shootings are on the rise in Indianapolis.
According to IMPD, 19 people accidentally shot themselves in the last 30 days. There were eight accidental shootings in the last seven days, including a man who was cleaning his handgun.
"That firearm accidentally discharged and struck him and his spouse," said IMPD Ofc. William Young.
Police say accidental shootings also happen when gun owners holster their weapon or stick it in their waistband.
"You are responsible for your firearm when you are handling your firearm," Young said. "And I always say, treat every firearm as if it is loaded."
What's even more concerning is when a child gets hold of a gun in a home.
"Whenever we hear something like that come across the radio it kind of makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up, because a lot of our officers and firemen they have children, a 6-year-old or 8-year-old, so it's concerning," said Young.
He said safety is key.
"If you're handling a firearm, get some sort of safety lock for that firearm," said Young. "Put it somewhere safe where a child is not able to get ahold of it, or even someone who is not a responsible person."
Also, be careful and mindful of where you store your weapon inside the home.
"Don't leave your gun in a drawer," said Young. "Don't leave it on top of a refrigerator. So many times, we see folks that say, 'Oh, I'll put it in a drawer hidden away from children.' That's not practicing good gun safety."
Online resources like Project Childsafe offer resources like free gun locks and more to help prevent another accidental shooting. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/impd-accidental-shootings-rise-in-indianapolis-guns-firearm-safety/531-bc53eb14-9583-4524-adb5-15d60585c7e3 | 2022-07-27T23:29:57 | 1 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/impd-accidental-shootings-rise-in-indianapolis-guns-firearm-safety/531-bc53eb14-9583-4524-adb5-15d60585c7e3 |
Fort Wayne City Councilwoman Sharon Tucker, D-6th, took a deep breath before she read the list of the finance committee’s upcoming work.
Each ordinance and resolution that the City Council considers is required to be approved for introduction before the members discuss and take action on the item at a future meeting. Introductions are generally quick because the committee chair reads the ordinances and resolutions into the record before the members vote.
Councilwoman Michelle Tucker, D-at large, read a single item for the Public Works committee, and Councilman Tom Didier-R-3rd, only had one ordinance to introduce. Tucker, however, had a much longer list.
“Well, we have several, so go ahead and get comfortable,” she said.
More than 10 minutes later, Tucker finished reading 23 resolutions and ordinances.
“Mr. President, with all of the air in me, we put those up for final scrutiny,” Tucker said.
Councilman Russ Jehl, R-2nd, is the committee’s chair, so he would have typically read the items for introduction. He was absent Tuesday so Tucker filled in as the committee’s co-chair.
Council President Jason Arp, R-3rd, joked that Jehl didn’t do Tucker any favors this week. She quietly agreed as she took a long sip of her drink. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/councilwoman-reads-a-mouthful-of-introductions/article_e52a720c-0de3-11ed-a446-0bbc8fca0439.html | 2022-07-27T23:32:01 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/councilwoman-reads-a-mouthful-of-introductions/article_e52a720c-0de3-11ed-a446-0bbc8fca0439.html |
Libertarian U.S. Senate candidate James Sceniak is challenging his major party rivals to three debates.
Sceniak announced the formal challenge Tuesday in a news release. In a statement, he said Hoosiers deserve to know where Indiana’s senate hopefuls stand on the issues.
“As a voter, you value your vote. You should vote for the option that best aligns with your own principles,” Sceniak said. “Demand three debates, which are a necessary part of the electoral process.”
He also compared debates to job interviews during the hiring process and said voters “have a right to question and understand the record of the current incumbent,” Republican Sen. Todd Young.
A Goshen native, Sceniak faces Young and Democratic candidate Tom McDermott in November’s general election. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/libertarian-senate-candidate-challenges-opponents-to-debates/article_0b698558-0de3-11ed-8854-7bf4c9cfb643.html | 2022-07-27T23:32:08 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/libertarian-senate-candidate-challenges-opponents-to-debates/article_0b698558-0de3-11ed-8854-7bf4c9cfb643.html |
McMillen Health announced Wednesday it has raised admission fees from $5 per student to $7 because of inflation.
McMillen Health said it had not increased its prices for more than 15 years and asked for continued support.
McMillen Health's mission is to provide vital, effective preventive health education that promotes physical, emotional, and social well-being. McMillen Health said it fulfills its mission by providing fact based preventive health education and by promoting responsibility in health choices and decision making. More than 90,000 students nationwide benefit from this education annually, the agency said. For more information visit www.mcmillenhealth.org. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/mcmillen-health-raises-admission-fees/article_ea5f3120-0dfe-11ed-9de2-cfe3222563f7.html | 2022-07-27T23:32:14 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/mcmillen-health-raises-admission-fees/article_ea5f3120-0dfe-11ed-9de2-cfe3222563f7.html |
The Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission approved a 10% natural gas rate increase for NIPSCO after the utility requested a 17% increase.
The rates will be done in two phases with the majority of the increase coming in September and a second rise in March. NIPSCO has about 128,000 natural gas customers in Allen County.
The commission’s decision followed an extensive review process with public input and a collaborative agreement with the Indiana Office of Utility Consumer Counselor and the NIPSCO Industrial Group, a news release said Wednesday.
The average residential customer is expected to see an overall increase of about $6 a month.
NIPSCO requested a 17% increase in September. The increase would grant greater bill stability, which benefits customers by reducing bill fluctuation between high-usage and low-usage periods, especially the winter heating months, a September news release said.
The base monthly charge will increase from $14 to about $16.33, which is a reduction from the $24.50 proposed last year, a news release said. Projected bill impact for commercial and industrial customers might differ as charges depend on usage, rate type and class.
The increase will generate about $71.8 million annually, compared to $115 million each year if the 17% increase were approved.
Mike Hooper, president and chief operating officer of NIPSCO, said in a news release that the rate increases will help future investments.
“Customers expect service that is dependable and rates at the lowest cost possible,” Hooper said. “This balanced outcome demonstrates a positive path toward continued investments in essential resources that will support safe operations, upgrading aging infrastructure and enhancing our customers’ experience.”
NIPSCO’s natural gas base rates were last approved in 2018. Since then, NIPSCO has invested about $885 million in system upgrades, technology improvements and pipeline safety and reliability initiatives that will be completed by the end of the year, a news release said.
Information about bill payment assistance programs can be found online at nipsco.com/assistance. People can learn more about energy savings programs at nipsco.com/save.
For more information about NIPSCO rates, go to nipsco.com/2022gasrates. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/nipsco-gas-rates-to-increase-10/article_348bbad4-0df5-11ed-82a0-7f96029c60f0.html | 2022-07-27T23:32:20 | 0 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/nipsco-gas-rates-to-increase-10/article_348bbad4-0df5-11ed-82a0-7f96029c60f0.html |
MOUNTAIN CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) – The James H. Quillen VA Medical Center (JHQVAMC) is asking local landlords to take part in its homeless veteran’s program in response to the affordable housing crisis.
According to a release, the program currently provides rental subsidies and landlord support for around 27 veterans and their families throughout the region.
Due to increases in rent and growing inflation rates, the program is said to be facing challenges and encourages landlords to consider opening their properties to veteran families.
JHQVAMC provided the following benefits of renting to homeless veterans:
- VA provides services to veterans placed in permanent housing to support their housing stability. Reliable income from subsidies where a portion of the rent is automatically paid on time to landlords by a public housing authority or a Va. grantee.
- Support from Va. case management to connect landlords and veterans with the help they may need.
- Making a positive impact in changing a veteran’s life.
The local impact of decreases in the availability of affordable housing has resulted in extended housing searches and delays in locating suitable housing for homeless veterans by 35% compared to two years ago, the release states.
For more information contact Rhonda.Bier@va.gov for Northeast Tennessee and Bristol, Virginia or Amy.Jones7@va.gov for the Knoxville and Oak Ridge, Tennessee areas. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/landlords-urged-to-take-part-in-homeless-veterans-program/ | 2022-07-27T23:33:31 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/landlords-urged-to-take-part-in-homeless-veterans-program/ |
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Police on Wednesday identified the man who was shot and killed Sunday by Portland Officer Mina Cavalli-Singer following a struggle during his arrest.
Officers responded to a report of a man and woman physically fighting just after midnight on Sunday near Southeast 148th Avenue and Southeast Clinton Street. The Portland Police Bureau identified the man as 19-year-old Johnathan Worth.
Police say Worth was armed and fired a shot when officers struggled to arrest him.
KOIN 6 News obtained video of the incident taken by Chris Ponte of Oregon Cop Watch, a group he said is designed to hold police accountable.
Just after the struggle begins, the suspect is on the ground with two officers on top trying to control him. The video shows both officers have their guns holstered.
The video then appears to show the suspect pulling out a gun and firing it into the air near the male officer.
About 15 seconds pass between that shot, which police said was fired by the suspect, and the 6 shots that follow. Still photos from Ponte’s video shows the male officer taking hold of the suspect’s gun before Officer Cavalli-Singer draws her gun and shoots him on the ground from close range.
Worth was declared dead at the scene. The medical examiner determined the cause of his death to have been from the gunshot wounds, PPB said in an update Wednesday.
PPB said it is conducting an internal review of the shooting before the case goes to the Police Review Board, a group of community members, law enforcement personnel and representatives of the Independent Police Review Division. | https://www.koin.com/local/multnomah-county/19-year-old-man-shot-killed-in-struggle-with-police-identified/ | 2022-07-27T23:33:54 | 1 | https://www.koin.com/local/multnomah-county/19-year-old-man-shot-killed-in-struggle-with-police-identified/ |
A 7-year-old girl who was injured in a crash near Corona de Tucson on Tuesday morning has died, officials say.
On July 26 just after 8 a.m., deputies responded to a collision involving an SUV and a passenger car at West Sahuarita Road and East Sycamore Ridge Trail.
The preliminary investigation revealed that a Dodge Journey SUV was stopped at Sahuarita Road waiting to make a left turn on Sycamore Ridge when a Hyundai Elantra rear-ended the SUV, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department said in a news release.
The Hyundai was occupied by three people, including two children in the back seat. One of the children, the 7-year-old girl, was taken to the hospital, where she succumbed to her injuries. The other occupants of the car and the two occupants from the SUV were also taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
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The department did not release the child's name.
Jamie Donnelly covers breaking news for the Arizona Daily Star. Contact her via e-mail at jdonnelly@tucson.com | https://tucson.com/news/local/7-year-old-dies-of-injuries-from-crash-se-of-tucson/article_e1b472d2-0deb-11ed-8c66-db64da428e91.html | 2022-07-27T23:36:24 | 1 | https://tucson.com/news/local/7-year-old-dies-of-injuries-from-crash-se-of-tucson/article_e1b472d2-0deb-11ed-8c66-db64da428e91.html |
PHOENIX — Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich is joining a lawsuit to bar the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms from cracking down on what the agency considers "ghost guns.''
The Biden administration defines those guns as "unserialized, privately made firearms that law enforcement are increasingly recovering at crime scenes across the country.'' Last year, law enforcement recovered about 20,000 suspected ghost guns in criminal investigations, a tenfold increase from 2016, the administration has said.
In legal papers filed Wednesday, Brnovich joined with challengers to argue that new rules, set to go into effect next month, violate ATF's authority and exceed its ability to regulate interstate commerce.
The lawsuit argues the Biden administration is trying to do what it cannot get Congress to enact.
"The final rule unconstitutionally subverts Congress' authority, exercising quintessentially legislative powers in a manner that could never pass either (let alone both) houses of Congress today, which is precisely why defendants have no intent whatsoever to ask for legislative authorization to take such unprecedented actions,'' the lawsuit states. "Yet under our Constitution, the president (much less unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats within the executive branch) is not a king who can exercise this sort of unbridled power unilaterally.''
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It also contends the administration is attempting to "broadly rewrite federal gun-control laws to suit a radically anti-gun political agenda.''
The lawsuit was originally filed earlier this month in North Dakota by a licensed firearms dealer, Gun Owners of America and Eliezer Jimenez, a member of that group who makes his own firearms from parts he acquires.
Brnovich, a Republican running for U.S. Senate, said he is joining to keep ATF from regulating unfinished, non-functional parts of guns as if they were complete firearms.
His office said that "threatens the American tradition of private firearms manufacturing that predates the Revolution.''
A press aide for Brnovich said using state resources to join the lawsuit is justified because the attorney general "has a right to protect Arizona from overreach of the federal government.''
There was no immediate comment from ATF, which has yet to file a formal response to the original lawsuit.
"Exceedingly difficult" to trace
The ATF rule has its roots in plans announced by the Biden administration in April.
"Because ghost guns lack the serial numbers marked on other firearms, law enforcement has an exceedingly difficult time tracing a ghost gun found at a crime scene back to an individual purchaser,'' the White House said in a news release.
Specifically, ATF has proposed banning what the administration refers to as "buy build shoot'' kits that individuals can purchase online or at stores without a background check. The contents can be readily assembled into a working firearm in as little as 20 minutes with equipment the buyers have at home, the administration says.
Linked to that is a new definition the agency is proposing for a "privately made firearm.'' Challengers say that term does not exist — and has never existed — in federal law.
"That is because there is no federal prohibition on non-prohibited individuals who, like plaintiff Jimenez, privately manufacture firearms for their own personal use,'' the lawsuit states. Nor is there is a bar on selling those weapons or requiring they be marked with a serial number, recorded in the books of any dealer, or obtained only after a background check, the lawsuit says.
In filing the lawsuit, the challengers say it is legally irrelevant that the lack of serial numbers makes it more difficult for ATF to track firearms for law enforcement, because only Congress may change the law.
"The security of a free state"
Beyond that, the suit says the rule change will force some companies to halt sales, meaning they will lay off workers. That will raise unemployment, increasing the public benefits that would be paid to these individuals while diminishing sales and income tax revenues, it says.
"The final rule will make it exceedingly harder (if not impossible) for the citizens of the plaintiff states to manufacture their own firearms,'' the lawsuit states. That would mean preempting states with "more permissive laws'' that are beyond the reach of the federal government, it says.
It also says the rule infringes on "the lawful acquisition of protected 'arms' within the states, the keeping and bearing of which contributes to 'the security of a free state.'"
The lawsuit separately challenges another provision in the rule that would alter the current law that federal firearms dealers must maintain records for at least 20 years, after which they can be destroyed. The rule requires not only permanent retention but that records be transferred to AFT if the dealer goes out of business, creating what the challengers say is an illegal national gun registry.
The plaintiffs are most immediately asking a judge to issue a preliminary injunction blocking the agency from implementing the rule as scheduled on Aug. 24. But no date has been set for a hearing. | https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/arizona-wants-to-stop-atf-from-cracking-down-on-ghost-guns/article_2d771050-0de5-11ed-b2a4-174ef58c83d9.html | 2022-07-27T23:36:30 | 1 | https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/arizona-wants-to-stop-atf-from-cracking-down-on-ghost-guns/article_2d771050-0de5-11ed-b2a4-174ef58c83d9.html |
The border wall in Arizona needs immediate remediation in sensitive areas to avoid serious public safety issues and significant damage to native wildlife that is likely to compound over time, according to a new report by conservation group Wildlands Network.
"Irreparable damage” has already taken place, said Myles Traphagen, borderlands program coordinator for the Wildlands Network.
“We're never going to see Montezuma Peak at Coronado National Memorial the way that Coronado saw it in 1542,” Traphagen said. “We're not going to see Guadalupe Canyon in the condition it was when Roger Tory Peterson, the noted birder, and Robert Stebbins, the noted herpetologist, visited these places to note rare species of birds and reptiles that only occur in that part of Arizona.”
On the day that President Joe Biden took office and halted most construction on the border wall, the nonprofit organization began assessing environmental effects of the wall and related construction in Arizona and New Mexico.
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Several “crucially important wildlife corridors were saved at the last minute” when construction was halted, says the report, released Monday. However, the report continues, numerous national wilderness areas suffered “an incredible amount of damage.”
During the Trump administration, 263 miles of pedestrian fencing/border wall were built in Arizona and New Mexico, the report says. Along with the fencing that was already there, that comes to at least 391 miles of border wall, equaling about 70% of the land along the two states' southern borders.
The report highlights some of the environmental damage and mitigation it says is needed in five protected wilderness areas in Coronado National Forest on the Arizona-Mexico border, which Traphagen says are the “most dramatic examples,” including:
- Cerro del Fresnal, about 1 mile east of the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge.
- Pajarito Mountains, 6 miles west of Nogales.
- Western Patagonia Mountains, 1 mile east of the Santa Cruz River.
- Coronado National Memorial, at the southern terminus of the Arizona Trail.
- Guadalupe Canyon, about 4 miles east of the New Mexico-Arizona state line.
Mitigation plans called insufficient
The report says threats to some of these areas include: rockfall, erosion, invasive plant species, choking out springs and cattle watering tanks, the risk of catastrophic flood damage, serious public safety issues, and threats to critical habitat for the endangered jaguar.
Some of the places highlighted in the report also still have construction materials on site, like Cerro del Fresnal, a prominent peak in Coronado National Forest in Pima County.
Federal contractor Fisher Sand & Gravel blasted the peak with dynamite, leaving behind construction material and debris such as rebar and steel mesh, the report says. There is no fencing or signage to warn people or to keep out animals. A commercial generator left there slid down a slope, slammed into the border wall, and was left there for at least a week, the report says.
“Cerro del Fresnal has essentially become an unmitigated mining site,” the report says, adding that the Mine Safety and Health Administration should take custody of the site.
As well, the record-breaking heat and lack of rain for the Southwest in 2020 highlights the added dangers to animal species, Wildlands Network says. In arid environments animals often need to migrate long distances in order to find water, meaning with a hotter and drier climate, animals need more space to access food and water, not less, the report says.
Using the 2005 REAL ID Act, which contains a provision that allows the secretary of Homeland Security to waive laws that interfere with construction of physical barriers at the borders, the Trump administration waived dozens of laws to speed up wall construction, including the requirement to review environmental impacts.
Noting little robust government oversight of environmental impacts, Wildlands Network began a wildlife monitoring program in late 2019 at San Bernardino National Wildlife Refuge, in southeastern Cochise County, to measure the effect of the border wall on wildlife movement across the border, setting up dozens of trail cameras in busy wildlife corridors.
Detections of wildlife on the trail cameras along the border have declined over the last year in places where a wall was built.
While the report recommends that the wall be fully removed in order to fully restore the region, it makes recommendations on ways the wall could be modified to create openings for wildlife passages.
Traphagen is doubtful the government will remove sections of wall for animals.
“Wildlife passage for large mammals is diametrically opposed to the objective of trying to keep large mammals like humans from crossing, so it's almost like an irreconcilable difference between people who are advocating for wildlife and people who are advocating for border security,” he said. “However, the crucial difference is that most large mammals cannot get over the wall, whereas humans are still able to do that. And they do that on a daily basis using ladders, ropes and reciprocating saws.”
Incidents of people climbing the border wall are not uncommon and sometimes lead to injury and death, including a Mexican woman who choked to death on climbing gear on the border wall in Cochise County in April.
Remediation measures to start this fall
The government is planning remediation measures for wall construction areas, which have been pushed back in Arizona to the fall. They include adding more barriers rather than taking some down.
Biden's 2023 budget request includes authority for the Homeland Security secretary to transfer up to $225 million to the Interior Department or the Forest Service for environmental mitigation activities related to the construction of the border wall.
Custom and Border Protection’s remediation plans “didn’t identify the real problem locations,” Traphagen said. The measures it outlined “serve for the protection of the border wall infrastructure,” without much consideration to environmental harms, he said.
“They never presented any photographs with descriptions of the most egregious damage,” he said.
Customs and Border Protection did not respond to questions from the Star about the Wildlands report in time for the print deadline.
The government’s remediation plans include cleaning up and repairing damage in Pima, Cochise and Santa Cruz counties, including environmentally sensitive areas in Organ Pipe National Monument, Buenos Aires and Cabeza Prieta wildlife refuges, San Pedro National Riparian Area and Coronado National Memorial.
The plans include environmental remediation like revegetation of disturbed areas as well as the installation of 8-by-11-inch wildlife passages in parts of the border barrier. Also planned are gap closure and gate installation, which is something environmental groups say will further impede the movement of wildlife.
The remediation has yet to start, but the government has begun clearing construction materials away from sites, including areas in Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge, where piles of gravel and dirt remain.
The Wildlands report comes on the heels of Arizona allocating $355 million for a border wall, which is unlikely to be an actual wall but rather a “virtual” one, which could include motion sensors, infrared cameras, mobile towers and aerial drones.
Razor wire can be taken down swiftly
Another significant aspect of the border barrier that the Wildlands report highlights is the 180 miles of razor wire, also called concertina wire, which was installed on the wall in border cities including Nogales, Douglas, San Diego, Calexico and El Paso in 2019 and 2020.
The report documented 64 miles of razor wire in Arizona, 46 in California and 70 in Texas.
While some of the natural places are beyond repair, “razor wire is something we can do something about,” Traphagen said.
The razor wire "threatens the residents of these cities and places children at risk to severe lacerations" and inflicts "psychological damage" to residents of border cities, the report says.
“That can be taken down swiftly,” Traphagen said. “I'm really concerned about the impact to people who live in border communities and especially children and young people who grow up in a place that is very militarized, that resembles the Berlin Wall, resembles a prison, and what is going to be the long term effect upon these young people who become normalized to that type of brutal setting.”
Wildlands Network sent the report to members of Congress and made it available to the public at wildlandsnetwork.org/news/priority-restoration-areas-border.
“We're essentially destroying our land, our protected lands that Congress … decided to set aside for cultural and environmental resource preservation,” Traphagen said. “The border wall has so many levels. We need to reflect upon where our values are now, and is it really worth destroying our own home for trying to deal with a human socioeconomic problem.”
Contact reporter Danyelle Khmara at dkhmara@tucson.com or 573-4223. On Twitter: @DanyelleKhmara | https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/group-finds-damage-dangers-from-border-wall-work-urges-action/article_23904ad0-0c72-11ed-8e7e-eb24e7ecc7e5.html | 2022-07-27T23:36:37 | 1 | https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/group-finds-damage-dangers-from-border-wall-work-urges-action/article_23904ad0-0c72-11ed-8e7e-eb24e7ecc7e5.html |
CROWN POINT — The last of four defendants charged in the homicide of an East Chicago man whose body was found dumped in a Lake Station pond in 2019 pleaded guilty Friday and was placed on probation for two years.
Nathaniel J. Ostapchuk, 24, of Hammond, admitted to one count of assisting a criminal, a level 6 felony.
Lake Criminal Court Judge Salvador Vasquez accepted Ostapchuk's plea agreement and sentenced him to two years in jail, suspended in favor of probation.
Ostapchuk's sentencing marked the end of a case that began Dec. 1, 2019, when 34-year-old Erik Lozano was stabbed to death in the parking lot of a BMO Harris bank branch in East Chicago.
Christian O. Mora, 21, of East Chicago, pleaded guilty last fall to voluntary manslaughter, a level 2 felony, and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
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Mora admitted in his plea agreement he stabbed Lozano about 20 times during an argument about money.
Police later found Lozano's body submerged in shallow water in Grand Boulevard Lake in Lake Station. The body had been doused in bleach and wrapped in garbage bags.
Casey Hall, 22, of Merrillville, was sentenced to two years in prison for helping place Lozano's body in the pond.
Adam Martin, 22, of Lake Station, pleaded guilty in March to helping put Lozano's body in a car and serving as a lookout while others dumped the body in the pond. Martin was sentenced in June to two years in jail, suspended in favor of probation.
Lozano's brother, Ruben Lozano, said during Mora's sentencing it was painful to learn his brother had been stabbed so many times, including once through the heart, and "disregarded as nothing."
"My brother was a good guy," he said. "He's going to be missed." | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/last-of-4-defendants-sentenced-for-helping-dump-homicide-victims-body-in-pond/article_5ec97f90-c20b-5ba2-b78a-0f5717faf3ad.html | 2022-07-27T23:37:48 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/last-of-4-defendants-sentenced-for-helping-dump-homicide-victims-body-in-pond/article_5ec97f90-c20b-5ba2-b78a-0f5717faf3ad.html |
CROWN POINT — The Indiana Court of Appeals reversed part of a Hammond man's conviction Wednesday in connection with a double murder in 2019 and remanded the case for further proceedings.
Darren "Duke" Taylor, 41, was found guilty by a Lake Criminal Court jury in August 2021 of the execution-style killings of 35-year-old Temia Haywood and her 13-year-old son Lavell Edmond on March 23, 2019, inside their home in the 6800 block of East Third Avenue in Gary's Miller section.
After the jury returned its verdicts, the late Judge Diane Boswell proceeded to the next phase of Taylor's trial on firearm enhancements linked to his murder convictions.
Boswell erred by not ensuring Taylor personally waived his right to a jury trial on the enhancements, either orally or in writing, the Court of Appeals ruled.
Instead, Taylor's attorney, Sean Mullins, conferred with him before telling the judge that Taylor agreed to a bench trial.
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"The waiver by Taylor's counsel was invalid, and the court's failure to confirm Taylor's personal waiver before proceeding to a bench trial was fundamental error," appeals court Judge Edward W. Najam wrote.
The appeals court reversed Taylor's convictions on the enhancements only and remanded the case for a new trial limited to those charges.
The enhancements accounted for 20 years of Taylor's 150-year sentence.
Boswell sentenced Taylor in October 2021 to 60 years each on two counts of murder, 10 years for armed robbery and 10 years for enhancements on each murder count, all to be served consecutively.
If Taylor chooses to face a new jury and is convicted of the two enhancements, he could face five to 20 years on each.
The enhancements allege he used a firearm during the murders of Haywood and Edmond.
According to trial testimony, Taylor knew Haywood because she dated his father, a married man, for about five years before ending the relationship sometime before March 2019.
Taylor and a co-defendant arrived at Haywood's home, and Taylor accompanied Haywood into a bedroom and shot her at close range in the head.
The co-defendant, who testified against Taylor at trial, said Taylor left the bedroom and walked directly upstairs.
Police found Edmonds seated behind an upstairs bedroom door, as if he had been trying to hide, with gunshot wounds to his head and both arms.
Taylor ordered his co-defendant to take Haywood's television, and the two wiped their fingerprints off Haywood's door handles.
Police were able to identify Taylor by reviewing images from Haywood's Ring doorbell system.
At Taylor's sentencing, members of Haywood's family said she was the glue that kept their family together and Edmonds was a joy to be around.
"What you took away from my family can never be replaced," said Haywood's sister, Rosetta Haywood.
Gallery: Recent arrests booked into Lake County Jail
Kyra Willis
Age : 29
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206110
Arrest Date: July 15, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jonathan Thien
Age : 38
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206094
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: OPERATE VEH AFTER BEING HABITUAL TRAFFIC OFFENDER; POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Kevin Rodriguez
Age : 36
Residence: Lowell, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206098
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Thomas Silaj
Age : 34
Residence: Highland, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206096
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
David Moore III
Age : 47
Residence: St. John, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206095
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Arionn Parent
Age : 52
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206108
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Christopher Philbin
Age : 34
Residence: Dyer, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206105
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/MODERATE BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Germon Jones
Age : 26
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206101
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Nicole McGregor
Age : 30
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206078
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Courtney Johnson
Age : 39
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206112
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - DECEPTION - IDENTITY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jeff Henderson Jr.
Age : 40
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206090
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Christopher Dukes
Age : 37
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206083
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A SERIOUS VIOLENT FELON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Michael Edwards Jr.
Age : 39
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206082
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - POCKET-PICKING - $750 TO $50,000
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jasmine Clayton
Age : 32
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206079
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
James Ballard
Age : 58
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206092
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: SEX OFFENDER RESIDENCY VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Dawn Burton
Age : 56
Residence: Calumet City, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206091
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION VIOLATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Tre'Vion Carlisle
Age : 24
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206086
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: ROBBERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jeremy Asfall
Age : 33
Residence: Sacramento, CA
Booking Number(s): 2206106
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Juan Aguero Jr.
Age : 53
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206081
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: CONFINEMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Brian Suckey
Age : 36
Residence: LaPorte, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206045
Arrest Date: July 13, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Simona Trajceski
Age : 27
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206050
Arrest Date: July 13, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Andrew Stover
Age : 35
Residence: Steger, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206068
Arrest Date: July 13, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
David Storey Jr.
Age : 24
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206047
Arrest Date: July 13, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - STRANGULATION; DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE; DEALING - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Jason Sivak
Age : 43
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206067
Arrest Date: July 13, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Annette Roberts
Age : 48
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206060
Arrest Date: July 13, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - POCKET-PICKING - $750 TO $50,000
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Joseph McLeroy
Age : 48
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206066
Arrest Date: July 13, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - STRANGULATION; DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Kewon Price
Age : 21
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206073
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jonathan Huemmer
Age : 23
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206041
Arrest Date: July 13, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Dontrell Henderson Jr.
Age : 24
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206054
Arrest Date: July 13, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - STRANGULATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Tamika Graves
Age : 42
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206058
Arrest Date: July 13, 2022
Offense Description: HOMICIDE - MURDER (ATTEMPTED)
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Malik Gross
Age : 26
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206059
Arrest Date: July 13, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/SERIOUS BODILY INJURY; BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING - W/NO INTENT OF FELONY THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Jamey Goin
Age : 44
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206051
Arrest Date: July 13, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Antonio Collins
Age : 46
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206071
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Brigida Fortoso Gomez Rodriguez
Age : 49
Residence: Lowell, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206056
Arrest Date: July 13, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - STRANGULATION - AGAINST A PREGNANT WOMAN
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Missy Buhrmester
Age : 30
Residence: Linden, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206049
Arrest Date: July 13, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Geno Carta
Age : 29
Residence: Cedar Lake, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206075
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Glorivette Bonilla
Age : 45
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206063
Arrest Date: July 13, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Benjamin Seramur
Age : 31
Residence: Hebron, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206013
Arrest Date: July 12, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - FORCIBLY RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Vashon Sherman
Age : 33
Residence: Indianapolis, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206020
Arrest Date: July 12, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A FELON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Hannah Wagner
Age : 25
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206039
Arrest Date: July 13, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jessica Whitlow
Age : 31
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206015
Arrest Date: July 12, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Santiago Reyes
Age : 34
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206018
Arrest Date: July 12, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Bradley Schulten
Age : 38
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206029
Arrest Date: July 12, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kenneth Plucinski
Age : 49
Residence: Lowell, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206021
Arrest Date: July 12, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jonathan Popa
Age : 40
Residence: Highland, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206009
Arrest Date: July 12, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Alan Hughes
Age : 41
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206010
Arrest Date: July 12, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jonathan Johnson
Age : 41
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206011
Arrest Date: July 12, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Melissa Johnston
Age : 39
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206031
Arrest Date: July 12, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Stafford Henderson
Age : 64
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206016
Arrest Date: July 12, 2022
Offense Description: SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION VIOLATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Vincent Banks
Age : 55
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206019
Arrest Date: July 12, 2022
Offense Description: MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Nicole Bowersox
Age : 26
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206023
Arrest Date: July 12, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Francisco Flores
Age : 32
Residence: South Holland, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206035
Arrest Date: July 12, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Stewart Foley IV
Age : 49
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206037
Arrest Date: July 13, 2022
Offense Description: CONFINEMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
John Kryda
Age : 32
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205991
Arrest Date: July 11, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kyle Hanaway
Age : 30
Residence: Medaryville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205988
Arrest Date: July 11, 2022
Offense Description: MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Derek Johnson
Age : 60
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205999
Arrest Date: July 11, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Favian Juarez
Age : 25
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206005
Arrest Date: July 12, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jason Haddock
Age : 42
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206000
Arrest Date: July 11, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESS HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Ryan Dobos
Age : 29
Residence: Schererville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205998
Arrest Date: July 11, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Mary Granter
Age : 31
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205986
Arrest Date: July 11, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESS HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE; POSSESS LEGEND DRUG OR PRECURSOR
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Charles Barber
Age : 42
Residence: Schererville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206003
Arrest Date: July 12, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT DEFENDANT USES A VEHICLE; BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Michael Warren
Age : 62
Residence: Beecher, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205965
Arrest Date: July 10, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jereyl Willis
Age : 29
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205977
Arrest Date: July 10, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Zeondre Shenault
Age : 22
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205978
Arrest Date: July 11, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Mark Stovall Jr.
Age : 35
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205973
Arrest Date: July 10, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Tasha Barnes
Age : 42
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205982
Arrest Date: July 11, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Eugene Golston
Age : 52
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205980
Arrest Date: July 11, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Charlene Sandoval
Age : 60
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205974
Arrest Date: July 10, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Lamarr Thompson
Age : 51
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205959
Arrest Date: July 10, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Dyron Wash
Age : 36
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205963
Arrest Date: July 10, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Edward Zurawski
Age : 35
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205956
Arrest Date: July 10, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Marcus Lucio
Age : 29
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205955
Arrest Date: July 9, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Angelee Luick
Age : 28
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205947
Arrest Date: July 9, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - DECEPTION - IDENTITY; NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS; INTIMIDATION; BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Gilbert Ortiz
Age : 40
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205951
Arrest Date: July 9, 2022
Offense Description: CONFINEMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jesus Perez Jr.
Age : 28
Residence: Dyer, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205946
Arrest Date: July 9, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Carmella Lawrence
Age : 55
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205948
Arrest Date: July 9, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
James Gilliam
Age : 47
Residence: Grant Park, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205957
Arrest Date: July 10, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Orlando Guerra
Age : 47
Residence: Schererville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205954
Arrest Date: July 10, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Rondell Johnson
Age : 23
Residence: Rockford, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205950
Arrest Date: July 9, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Joshua Bennett
Age : 28
Residence: Calumet City, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205943
Arrest Date: July 9, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jonathan Bermingham
Age : 38
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205952
Arrest Date: July 9, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Veronica Quijano
Age : 29
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205913
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - DECEPTION - IDENTITY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Alantae Thornton
Age : 29
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205908
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A FELON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Armaun McKenzie
Age : 33
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205927
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - MODERATE BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Robert McKenzie Jr.
Age : 27
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205920
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: FAMILY OFFENSE- INVASION OF PRIVACY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Sharita Parks
Age : 38
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205911
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - DECEPTION - IDENTITY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Angelos Lujano
Age : 21
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205918
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - FIREARM - HANDGUN - W/NO PERMIT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jeffrey Lambert
Age : 49
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205898
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Paris Larkin Jr.
Age : 26
Residence: Park Forest, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205915
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kemetka Leftridge
Age : 44
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205894
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - OBTAINING PROPERTY - BY CREDIT CARD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Deauntre Lester
Age : 34
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205919
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Michael Kaufman
Age : 25
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205897
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Cordarryl Jones
Age : 35
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205914
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - FORGERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Olivia Justice
Age : 18
Residence: Lowell, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205904
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Pamela Jenkins Reynolds
Age : 51
Residence: Indianapolis, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205901
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - FORGERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Timothy Irvin
Age : 44
Residence: Sauk Village, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205909
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Nedal Hamed
Age : 40
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205895
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY; ROBBERY
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Quinton Hicks
Age : 36
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205910
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: COUNTERFEITING AND APPLICATION FRAUD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Cortney Dixon
Age : 36
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205923
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - SERIOUS BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Brian Agee
Age : 26
Residence: Ford Heights, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205912
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Paul Brown Jr.
Age : 43
Residence: Cedar Lake, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205902
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/MODERATE BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
David Buczek
Age : 32
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205903
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Lamont Walls
Age : 48
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205861
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Rickey Washington
Age : 31
Residence: Danville, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205862
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jessica Sanchez
Age : 24
Residence: Cicero, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205878
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Monique Smoot
Age : 39
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205874
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Davion Torry
Age : 21
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205854
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Anthony Kirkland
Age : 37
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205853
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: PUBLIC INDECENCY - PROMOTING PROSTITUTION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Amber Mackey
Age : 23
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205855
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Daniel McGraw
Age : 36
Residence: Rensselaer, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205875
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Gerald Purkey
Age : 34
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205871
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE; POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Marta Rodriguez
Age : 43
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205869
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS; FALSE REPORTING - REPORT, CRIME, OR COMPLAINT
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Nyia Hunter
Age : 22
Residence: Riverdale, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205881
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Stacy Gorgas
Age : 44
Residence: Cedar Lake, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205856
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION VIOLATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Andrei Guta
Age : 19
Residence: Baltimore, MD
Booking Number(s): 2205872
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Adam Garcia
Age : 25
Residence: Schererville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205852
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: CRIMINAL RECKLESSNESS - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Dustin Freely
Age : 54
Residence: DeMotte, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205868
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Matthew Creekbaum
Age : 39
Residence: Porter, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205873
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT; RESISTING - ESCAPE
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Saya Dhiman
Age : 22
Residence: Palatine, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205891
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Andrea Brown
Age : 30
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205867
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jason Clark
Age : 44
Residence: Grffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205860
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - MODERATE BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Anthony Bonner
Age : 37
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205850
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - W/PRIOR AN UNRELATED CONVICTION REFERENCE SAME PERSON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Brian Stewart Jr.
Age : 26
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206122
Arrest Date: July 15, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - POCKET-PICKING; OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Elijah Harris
Age : 24
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206344
Arrest Date: July 21, 2022
Offense Description: CRIMINAL RECKLESSNESS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kenyata Williams
Age : 32
Residence: Fort Wayne, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206247
Arrest Date: July 19, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Shaquille Nailon
Age : 27
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206141
Arrest Date: July 16, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Ryan Scott
Age : 35
Residence: Munster, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206236
Arrest Date: July 19, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - AGAINST A PERSON < 14 YEARS OLD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kenshawn Anderson
Age : 35
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206279
Arrest Date: July 20, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Lamont Wilkerson Jr.
Age : 19
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206301
Arrest Date: July 20, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A FELON; RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Robert Conner
Age : 32
Residence: Evanston, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206334
Arrest Date: July 21, 2022
Offense Description: ARSON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Benjamin Terry
Age : 25
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206225
Arrest Date: July 19, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Davon Jones
Age : 18
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206254
Arrest Date: July 19, 2022
Offense Description: HOMICIDE - MURDER
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Henry Meadows III
Age : 43
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206191
Arrest Date: July 18, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Adrian Duran
Age : 22
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206212
Arrest Date: July 18, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Amber Mazoch
Age : 31
Residence: Muskego, WI
Booking Number(s): 2206331
Arrest Date: July 21, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Lindsey Delgado
Age : 37
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206119
Arrest Date: July 15, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Skarlet Cooper
Age : 38
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206288
Arrest Date: July 20, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL; PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION - OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Emanuel Barnes
Age : 27
Residence: Dolton, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206229
Arrest Date: July 19, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - STRANGULATION; BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Laquette Cain-Allison
Age : 32
Residence: Milwaukee, WI
Booking Number(s): 2206193
Arrest Date: July 17, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Abel Moreno
Age : 32
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206333
Arrest Date: July 21, 2022
Offense Description: HOMICIDE - RECKLESS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Anthony Cooper
Age : 50
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206337
Arrest Date: July 21, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Erich Boone
Age : 46
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206314
Arrest Date: July 20, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY; - SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION VIOLATION
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Darion Key
Age : 20
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206348
Arrest Date: July 21, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Sarah Morden
Age : 29
Residence: Dyer, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206248
Arrest Date: July 19, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Sommer Nicholson
Age : 36
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206125
Arrest Date: July 15, 2022
Offense Description: CASINO GAMBLING VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Trenton Terry
Age : 42
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206124
Arrest Date: July 15, 2022
Offense Description: CASINO GAMBLING VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
David Freeborn
Age : 36
Residence: Lansing, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206268
Arrest Date: July 20, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG; RESISTING - ESCAPE
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Clarion Phillips
Age : 32
Residence: Burnham, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206186
Arrest Date: July 17, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Darnell Turner
Age : 53
Residence: Lansing, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206207
Arrest Date: July 18, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Reginald Ryals
Age : 22
Residence: Dolton, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206237
Arrest Date: July 19, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - STRANGULATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Mathew Demakas
Age : 39
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206118
Arrest Date: July 15, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Dwayne Fields
Age : 57
Residence: Milwaukee, WI
Booking Number(s): 2206335
Arrest Date: July 21, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kenneth Peterson
Age : 51
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206130
Arrest Date: July 15, 2022
Offense Description: ROBBERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Emanuel England
Age : 32
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206218
Arrest Date: July 18, 2022
Offense Description: ROBBERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Durell Rhymes
Age : 36
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206241
Arrest Date: July 19, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - FIREARM - HANDGUN - W/NO PERMIT; OWI; SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION VIOLATION
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Samantha Cardenas
Age : 26
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206180
Arrest Date: July 17, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - DECEPTION - IDENTITY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Hannah Kuckuck
Age : 26
Residence: Fort Myers, FL
Booking Number(s): 2206340
Arrest Date: July 21, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Samuel Sledge
Age : 21
Residence: Decatur, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206246
Arrest Date: July 19, 2022
Offense Description: CHILD MOLESTATION - STATUTORY RAPE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Rebecca White
Age : 31
Residence: Rensselaer, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206142
Arrest Date: July 16, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Patrick Nuttall
Age : 20
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206137
Arrest Date: July 15, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Sammie Garrett Jr.
Age : 54
Residence: Chicago Heights, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206274
Arrest Date: July 20, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - POCKET-PICKING - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Scott Porta II
Age : 22
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206179
Arrest Date: July 17, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING; RESISTING - ESCAPE
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Leroy Williams
Age : 35
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206312
Arrest Date: July 20, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jorie Fink
Age : 26
Residence: Schererville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206139
Arrest Date: July 15, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - OBTAINING PROPERTY - BY CREDIT CARD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Takyra Cunningham
Age : 26
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206273
Arrest Date: July 20, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Denise Houldieson
Age : 23
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206171
Arrest Date: July 17, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Clark Smith
Age : 27
Residence: Lowell, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206252
Arrest Date: July 19, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Lakethia Johnson
Age : 31
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206275
Arrest Date: July 20, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Lawrence Galia II
Age : 42
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206214
Arrest Date: July 18, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION; CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - POSSESSION - SCHEDULE I
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Cynthia Peach
Age : 47
Residence: Dyer, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206132
Arrest Date: July 15, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kristy Gibson-Miller
Age : 32
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206345
Arrest Date: July 21, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jeremiah Parker
Age : 44
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206357
Arrest Date: July 22, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Maurice Farley
Age : 24
Residence: Calumet City, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206251
Arrest Date: July 19, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/PERMANENT INJURY OR DISFIGUREMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Aubrey Wilson
Age : 22
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206271
Arrest Date: July 20, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESS HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Ellery Williams
Age : 49
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206189
Arrest Date: July 17, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Victor Hernandez
Age : 30
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206199
Arrest Date: July 18, 2022
Offense Description: HOMICIDE - MURDER
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Robert Hudson Jr.
Age : 31
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206183
Arrest Date: July 17, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - FIREARM - HANDGUN - W/NO PERMIT; RESISTING - ESCAPE
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
John Davis
Age : 71
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206291
Arrest Date: July 20, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG; RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Ramon Jones
Age : 28
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206296
Arrest Date: July 20, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING; CRIMINAL RECKLESSNESS
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Maximilian Aldridge
Age : 25
Residence: Sauk Village, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206272
Arrest Date: July 20, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Cameron Bush
Age : 23
Residence: Lansing, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206354
Arrest Date: July 21, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Lorenzo Padilla
Age : 20
Residence: Calumet City, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206276
Arrest Date: July 20, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - SCHEDULE I, II, OR III
Highest Offense Class: Felony
David Wilson
Age : 32
Residence: St. John, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206318
Arrest Date: July 21, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING; PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION - OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE; OPERATING A VEHICLE AFTER DRIVING PRIVILEGES ARE SUSPENDED
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Tonya Negele
Age : 47
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206299
Arrest Date: July 20, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Julian Sanchez
Age : 23
Residence: Crestwood, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206332
Arrest Date: July 21, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Timothy Gorman Jr.
Age : 40
Residence: Schererville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206328
Arrest Date: July 21, 2022
Offense Description: SEXUAL BATTERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
DeSean Goings
Age : 25
Residence: Sauk Village, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206200
Arrest Date: July 18, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Bobby Hall
Age : 41
Residence: Indianapolis, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206259
Arrest Date: July 19, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - METHAMPHETAMINE; DEALING - SCHEDULE I, II, OR III
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Keith Davis
Age : 49
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206277
Arrest Date: July 20, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jack Hampton
Age : 42
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206127
Arrest Date: July 15, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Michael Voigt
Age : 24
Residence: Highland, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206255
Arrest Date: July 19, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Daveontay Clark
Age : 22
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206351
Arrest Date: July 21, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Mandi Powers
Age : 40
Residence: Chicago Heights, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206265
Arrest Date: July 20, 2022
Offense Description: MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Gregory Jackson
Age : 30
Residence: Calumet City, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206182
Arrest Date: July 17, 2022
Offense Description: RACKETEERING - CORRUPT BUSINESS INFLUENCE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jermani Keys
Age : 20
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206286
Arrest Date: July 20, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jamal Smith
Age : 21
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206304
Arrest Date: July 20, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Marshall Alfred
Age : 36
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206311
Arrest Date: July 20, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING - ESCAPE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Arthur Stueber Jr.
Age : 33
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206338
Arrest Date: July 21, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Anthony Carns
Age : 38
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206224
Arrest Date: July 19, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE; POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Jefforey Winn
Age : 43
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206175
Arrest Date: July 17, 2022
Offense Description: OPERATE VEHICLE AFTER BEING HABITUAL TRAFFIC OFFENDER
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Douglas Ferguson
Age : 41
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206266
Arrest Date: July 20, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Benjarmin Jeffries
Age : 19
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206245
Arrest Date: July 19, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Devon Mitchell
Age : 27
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206126
Arrest Date: July 15, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Edward Norton
Age : 24
Residence: Richport, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206267
Arrest Date: July 20, 2022
Offense Description: UNLAWFUL GAMBLING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Tywann Wilkerson
Age : 26
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206233
Arrest Date: July 19, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Christopher Walden
Age : 52
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206289
Arrest Date: July 20, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL; OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Nicholas Nash
Age : 30
Residence: Indianapolis, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206196
Arrest Date: July 18, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jordan Greer
Age : 23
Residence: Highland, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206202
Arrest Date: July 18, 2022
Offense Description: SEX CRIME - CHILD EXPLOITATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Torrey Allen Jr.
Age : 20
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206290
Arrest Date: July 20, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Sandra Rose
Age : 33
Residence: Kingsville, OH
Booking Number(s): 2206240
Arrest Date: July 19, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Lamont Murdaugh
Age : 22
Residence: Schererville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206197
Arrest Date: July 18, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Michael Seabrook
Age : 27
Residence: Highland, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206303
Arrest Date: July 20, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Marc McCollum
Age : 31
Residence: Munster, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206355
Arrest Date: July 22, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Gregory Cox
Age : 44
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206136
Arrest Date: July 15, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
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WHITING — Nearly 30 employees of the School City of Whiting have resigned since April 2022, causing turmoil among Whiting residents, parents of students and faculty and staff members.
Whiting resident Christopher Davenport said the large turnover of faculty and staff is destroying the school system. The former offensive coordinator for Whiting's football team questioned whether the school board and administration have the children's best interest at heart.
"Look them in the eyes, see if they're any better when we lose good teachers," Davenport said during Monday's school board meeting.
"There's great human beings who have reached out to the board president and told their issues, but many of them are afraid to go on the record," he said. "That's a problem when people are afraid of backlash."
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An online petition, with over 600 signatures, was created to remove SCOW Superintendent Cynthia Scroggins due to turnover. Davenport, a 1992 Whiting graduate, said it's time for something to be done.
Tom Ehrlich, a former Whiting High School math teacher, resigned before the Monday board meeting because of the culture of disrespect created by the administration, he said. During his five years at the SCOW, Ehrlich served as the assistant football coach, head wrestling coach and class sponsor.
“I am speaking here today on my resignation. You can find that on the agenda under ‘Personnel Report’ because someone made the cowardly decision to not even list the resignation,” he said. “It is a shame there is such fear of showing what is really going on here.”
Previous school board agendas listed the resignations and appointments of faculty and staff members. The June 23 board meeting listed five resignations, similar to the July 6 special meeting, which had six resignations.
The Monday agenda referred to this category solely as a personnel report with the approval to accept by motions from the school board.
“I have actually loved working at Whiting. The students here have left a lasting impact on me, as I hope I have on them,” Ehrlich said. “I have met co-workers that have become lifelong friends, and even family.”
Ehrlich said the straw that broke the camel’s back for him was the administration docking him a professional point after he missed more than 15 school days at the beginning of 2022 when his daughter was born three weeks premature with jaundice and required phototherapy. Ehrlich’s wife was hospitalized after giving birth for almost a week, and he learned soon after that his father was diagnosed with cancer.
“These were some of the hardest times of my entire life, and the only response I received from administration was that I was being docked a professional point,” he said. “The administration was aware of my situation and still decided to dock me a point.”
Only a handful of over 60 attendees spoke in front of the board due to a new law passed by the Indiana General Assembly that went into effect July 1, House Enrolled Act 1130. The law states that public comment must be allowed at school board meetings but can be limited to discussion of agenda items.
Scroggins informed some Whiting parents via email Friday that future school board meetings would utilize HEA 1130 and limit public commentary.
A Whiting parent mentioned to the board that the bylaws section from the SCOW Policy Manual titled Public Participation at Board Meetings hasn't been updated since Dec. 27, 2021, calling into question the validity of Scroggins Friday email.
Scroggins said there is a plan to retain current staff members by working with the compensation committee and holding regular meetings with Whiting's teachers union. When asked by the board whether current exit interviews are being conducted, Scroggins said SCOW has generally had informal meetings and teachers leave their resignation letters with the principal.
"I call the board to action to start having exit interviews to know why people are actually leaving," Ehrlich said. "You never know unless you ask."
The school board motioned to adopt the SCOW Board of Trustees Compact as a way to reestablish the relationship between the school board and the administrative team.
Amanda Perkins, school board vice president, read the compact's 13-point preamble which agrees to give the superintendent full administrative authority for properly discharging the professional duties of the position and the responsibility to achieve acceptable results.
As board members motioned to approve this compact, audience members shouted, "Don't do it," and, "This is a dictatorship, that's what you're voting on."
Jennifer Bannister, a mother of two Whiting high schoolers, said she feels it will be impossible for Scroggins to continue to lead with such a lack of confidence from the community.
"Kids need consistency," Bannister said. "They want their tomorrows to be the same as their todays."
Scroggins did not respond to multiple requests from The Times for comment.
Times Staff Writer Annie Mattea contributed to this report. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/education/school-city-of-whiting-turnover-rate-has-many-agitated/article_a531972c-9d8d-5743-8538-a0c4e79e400a.html | 2022-07-27T23:38:03 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/education/school-city-of-whiting-turnover-rate-has-many-agitated/article_a531972c-9d8d-5743-8538-a0c4e79e400a.html |
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GREENSBORO — Greensboro police will be training in the area of Foust Elementary School on Thursday and Friday, according to a news release from the department.
Residents can expect a large police presence in the area and loud noises during these training days. The school at 2610 Floyd St. is scheduled to be demolished in the near future.
Thursday's training will be between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. Friday's training will be between 8:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.
On Friday, Floyd Street will be closed between Meadowview Road and Daleview Place from approximately 8:30 a.m. until 2 p.m. | https://greensboro.com/news/local/accident-and-incident/police-training-exercise-planned-near-foust-elementary-in-greensboro/article_6df804c6-0dff-11ed-9577-cf9e35b754e3.html | 2022-07-27T23:41:32 | 0 | https://greensboro.com/news/local/accident-and-incident/police-training-exercise-planned-near-foust-elementary-in-greensboro/article_6df804c6-0dff-11ed-9577-cf9e35b754e3.html |
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ROANOKE, Va. – Thousands of beagles made their way to a new life yesterday, and more than 60 are looking for new homes at Angels of Assisi in Roanoke.
Rescued from the Envigo breeding facility in Cumberland, Virginia, nearly 4,000 dogs were transported to rescue organizations around the country.
“There were over four thousand dogs at this facility, which is so many to even wrap your head around,” Angels of Assisi Community Engagement director Dayna Reynolds said.
The dogs were repeatedly bred until they could be sold to companies for lab testing.
“It’s heartbreaking to think about. These were being used to be bred over and over again, which is really hard on their bodies, but luckily these ones had not had to endure laboratory testing,” Reynolds said. “So there’s some comfort in that.”
The facility branded the beagles with tattoos, which they will have to carry with them to their new homes.
“None of them had names. They had a letter sequence, I believe it’s six letters for all of them, and that’s how they were identified,” Reynolds said. “So, they had these letter sequences that were tattooed on the inside of their ears, and that’s how they knew who was who.”
While many of the adult dogs were skittish at first, Angels of Assisi is confident that they will make great family dogs.
“They overall have really great demeanors,” Reynolds said. “They were definitely scared at first, but as you can tell they just open up pretty quickly and are very loving.”
You can do your part in standing against animal cruelty as well.
“When it comes to cosmetic testing, you can be really diligent in checking your products, seeing if they’re cruelty-free, not testing on animals,” Reynolds said.
Angels of Assisi will make another trip to get more beagles soon.
“Now all of these dogs are never going to have to endure that, and they’re going to be able to go into loving, happy homes,” Reynolds said.
Angels of Assisi is still looking for temporary foster families for puppy litters. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/27/angels-of-assisi-takes-in-over-60-beagles-saved-from-a-medical-breeding-facility/ | 2022-07-27T23:51:19 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/27/angels-of-assisi-takes-in-over-60-beagles-saved-from-a-medical-breeding-facility/ |
BEDFORD COUNTY, Va. – As parents get ready to send kids back to the classroom next month, safety is top of mind for those at Bedford County Public Schools.
It’s the first time all School Resource Officer positions will be filled in about four years.
The Sheriff’s Office said they will also be increasing deputies’ random visits to schools throughout the day.
Authorities are also going to bring back the DARE program, which gives kids the skills they need to avoid involvement in drugs, gangs, and violence.
The Sheriff’s Office said they’ve done security assessments on all schools and will continue to train active threat response.
“It’s very important. Children are our most valued commodity, that’s the future,” Major Jon Wilks said. “It’s very important that we in law enforcement and everyone put everything that we can into school security and their safety.”
The office is also applying for grants to get funds for additional SROs and safety equipment. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/27/bedford-county-public-schools-increasing-safety-measures/ | 2022-07-27T23:51:26 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/27/bedford-county-public-schools-increasing-safety-measures/ |
LYNCHBURG, Va. – Lynchburg City Schools students will head back into the classrooms on August 16.
As excited as LCS leaders are for the new academic year, they admit they’re facing the same reality as divisions across the country.
“We are looking for math, science, and special education [teachers]. Those are critical-need positions in our district,” said Superintendent Dr. Crystal Edwards.
Edwards said they’re offering incentives including hiring bonuses.
The transportation department at LCS said they need more drivers, but they’re better staffed than this time last year. The department is also offering help with CDL training.
On Wednesday, LCS did not provide statistics regarding the number of vacancies or new hires, but Edwards said they’re seeing a high acceptance rate.
“We do have substitutes available should we have to start without a teacher, but we are doing everything possible to make sure that all of our classrooms and all of our positions are filled,” said Edwards.
Safety is also a priority for the leaders at LCS – While they could not reveal all of their tactics, they said resource officers will be assigned to the five middle and high schools and will assist elementary schools whenever needed.
LCS is also partnering with local law enforcement to review better strategies, employees are undergoing training, and every visitor must check in with a school’s front office when they arrive.
“We love when you come to [visit] the schools, but please do not think of us as being rude if we don’t hold the door open for you,” said Edwards.
When it comes to dealing with COVID-19, Edwards said that wearing masks, social distancing, and hand washing is still encouraged.
LCS will still notify parents of positive cases, and weekly COVID-19 testing will also be available.
“We also work with the local health department in terms of vaccinations and clinics, and we encourage anyone who can to get their vaccinations and get their boosters,” said Edwards.
LCS officials said some employees who helped with COVID-19 contact tracing in the past will now focus on helping to provide mental health resources. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/27/lynchburg-city-schools-gears-up-for-new-year-focusing-on-staffing-vacancies-safety/ | 2022-07-27T23:51:32 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/27/lynchburg-city-schools-gears-up-for-new-year-focusing-on-staffing-vacancies-safety/ |
CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) – People on both sides of the abortion debate gathered inside the West Virginia State Capitol for a rally right after the public hearing on Wednesday.
The bill clarifying abortion laws in the State of West Virginia was passed by the House of Delegates on Wednesday in a 69-23 vote.
The amendment to the proposed bill that would create exceptions for rape and incest passed in the West Virginia House of Delegates with a 46-43 vote
Nearly 100 people earlier today. It was very loud with people shouting statements and things got emotional.
“I believe that God is the giver of life,” Carolyn Sharp, a pro-life advocate said.
“There’s so many complications and issues that can arise with every pregnancy,” Alisha Clemmons, an advocate for abortion rights said.
Protestors on both sides of the issue rallied inside the Capitol after a special session where lawmakers are trying to pass a bill that would make abortion illegal in most cases, along with making it illegal for doctors to perform abortions and also give out abortion medications. It says it will not punish the mother.
“Abortion as a procedure is one of the safest procedures you can get medically,” Clemmons said.
“Life is precious, it starts in the womb, and we have to as a nation begin to raise our children. Our moms and dads, we have to rebuild the family. It takes two people to have a child,” Sharp said.
While on the other hand, abortion-rights advocates say, “my body, my choice.”
“We’re here, we’re going to keep fighting, we’re going to make our voices heard and we’re going to be everything we can to protect patients in West Virginia,” Clemmons said.
There will be another rally on Thursday when the bill is presented to the Senate. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/both-sides-gather-at-wv-state-capitol-for-public-reading-of-abortion-bill/ | 2022-07-27T23:55:53 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/both-sides-gather-at-wv-state-capitol-for-public-reading-of-abortion-bill/ |
MINGO COUNTY, WV (WOWK) — Emergency crews responded to a semi-truck rollover on Buffalo Mountain in Mingo County, West Virginia, on Friday morning, according to Delbarton Volunteer Fire Department.
Emergency officials say Delbarton VFD arrived on the scene around 7:44 a.m. and advised Mingo County 911 that a tractor-trailer carrying plastic pipes rolled over, blocking one lane of traffic.
The truck driver was able to free himself and his furry travel companion, a small dog. The man was taken to the hospital as a precaution, according to Delbarton VFD.
Emergency responders requested Fletcher’s Wrecker Service and told Mingo 911 that Buffalo Mountain would be shut down until further notice while crews cleaned up.
Chattaroy Volunteer Fire Department was requested to assist in closing the roadway at the top of the mountain. Officials say that officers from the West Virginia Department of Transportation also investigated the incident.
Crews reopened all lanes on Buffalo Mountain for travel, and all units were cleared at about 3:03 p.m., Delbarton VFD says.
The fire department thanked several local businesses, including Spence’s Service Station, Delbarton Quick Mart and Hometown Delight, for supplying food and drinks to responders on the scene. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/driver-and-dog-rollover-in-semi-truck-on-buffalo-mountain-in-mingo-co/ | 2022-07-27T23:55:59 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/driver-and-dog-rollover-in-semi-truck-on-buffalo-mountain-in-mingo-co/ |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Sacramento Kings are partnering with rapper and entrepreneur Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson's wine and spirits company and his youth foundation, according to an official release from the team.
The multi-year partnership was made in support of the Kings' efforts to work with diverse companies. As part of the deal, Sire Spirits LLC is now the official premium champagne partner, spirits partner and presenting sponsor of one of Golden 1 Center’s largest clubs, Rush, which serves courtside and season ticket members.
The club “Rush by Sire Spirits” will feature a 500 bottle champagne wall.
Another part of the deal allows the Sacramento Kings Foundation to partner with the G-Unity Foundation to work with Sac youth during the season. Jackson intends on hosting events, sweepstakes and live entertainment at the Golden 1 Center.
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SAN FRANCISCO — The board of a San Francisco law school founded by a 19th century rancher who sponsored deadly atrocities against Native Americans is recommending that it change its name to the College of the Law San Francisco.
The board of directors for UC Hastings College of the Law voted Wednesday to make the recommendation to state lawmakers, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. The college name is enshrined in state law and cannot be changed without legislative action.
Hastings counts among its graduates major movers and shakers, including former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris.
But it was also founded in 1878 by Serranus Clinton Hastings, a wealthy rancher and former chief justice of the California Supreme Court who helped orchestrate and finance campaigns by white settlers in Mendocino County to kill and enslave members of the Yuki Indian tribe.
The recommendation comes amid strong objections from descendants of Yuki and Round Valley tribal members who hoped for an indigenous name, the Chronicle reported.
The school began to investigate its founder's legacy in 2017 and the board voted in November to change the school's name. It is also working on "restorative justice" initiatives, including a formal apology.
In 2020, the law school at the University of California, Berkeley stripped itself of a 19th century namesake who espoused racist views that led to the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act.
WATCH ALSO: | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/california/new-name-law-school-founded-san-franciscan/103-2501c367-14d4-49ee-b7fe-387aa19e8bc9 | 2022-07-27T23:59:41 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/california/new-name-law-school-founded-san-franciscan/103-2501c367-14d4-49ee-b7fe-387aa19e8bc9 |
YUBA COUNTY, Calif. — A wildfire growing in Yuba County is forcing calls for some people to leave their homes.
The Yuba County Office of Emergency Services issued an evacuation order for Zone YUB-E102. An evacuation warning was also issued for YUBA-E042.
The so-called Apple Fire is burning in the area of White Oak Lane and Dolan Harding, south of Collins Lake. The fire is roughly 25 acres, according to Cal Fire.
Advisory zones have been added for E078, E086, and E103. Road closures are in place for Dolan Harding and Township Road and white Oak Lane and Redhill Way.
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Evacuation Center
An evacuation center is available at Sycamore Ranch, 5390 Hwy. 20 near Browns Valley. The Yuba County Posse Arena is open for large animals at 5396 Marysville Road in Browns Valley.
Wildfire Preps
According to Cal Fire, the 2021 fire season started earlier than previous years, but also ended earlier, as well. January 2021 saw just under 1,200 acres burned from nearly 300 wildfires. Fires picked up in the summer when the Dixie Fire burned in five Northern California counties — Butte, Plumas, Shasta, Lassen and Tehama. The Dixie Fire started on July 13 and wasn't contained until Oct. 25, burning nearly 1 million acres. It has since become the second-largest wildfire in state history and the largest non-complex fire.
Overall, 2.5 million acres were burned in 2021 from 8,835 wildfires. Over 3,600 structures were destroyed and 3 people were killed.
If you live in a wildfire-prone zone, Cal Fire suggests creating a defensible space around your home. Defensible space is an area around a building in which vegetation and other debris are completely cleared. At least 100 feet is recommended.
The Department of Homeland Security suggests assembling an emergency kit that has important documents, N95 respirator masks, and supplies to grab with you if you’re forced to leave at a moment’s notice. The agency also suggests signing up for local warning system notifications and knowing your community’s evacuation plans best to prepare yourself and your family in cases of wildfires.
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LOS ANGELES — An American Airlines 737 traveling from DFW Airport to Santa Ana, Calif. was forced to land in Los Angeles after a mechanical issue, affecting arriving aircraft at the airport.
The airport is currently on an FAA ground stop, which the FAA says is affecting the arriving aircraft.
Passengers on the aircraft are being bused to the terminal. No injuries to customers or crew members were reported, out of the 163 customers and six crew on board. Customers deplaned using the forward boarding door, not the emergency exits.
It's unclear what the mechanical issue was yet.
This is a developing story, please check back for updates. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/flight-dfw-santa-ana-diverted-los-angeles-mechanical-issue/287-d86a4ac1-b524-4cb4-8b30-5488b0ca4c6e | 2022-07-27T23:59:53 | 0 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/flight-dfw-santa-ana-diverted-los-angeles-mechanical-issue/287-d86a4ac1-b524-4cb4-8b30-5488b0ca4c6e |
FORT WORTH, Texas — Church leaders in Fort Worth hope to have a serious impact on families in need this upcoming back-to-school season.
For months, Youth Pastor Erick Bowens at Chosen Vessel Cathedral Church has been planning and strategizing their huge backpack giveaway. He convinced his Senior Pastor Bishop Marvin Sapp to do the giveaway on a Sunday afternoon. The concept is to not only serve the families already attending the dynamic Sunday Morning Worship, but also others in the community who are welcome to the event as well and already out and about.
"Last year we were able to serve people right here on the campus," said Bowens.
During the backpack give-away, Sapp and his ministry team hope to help hundreds of Fort Worth families starting with those students living in the same neighborhood as Chosen Vessel. But the event is open to the entire Fort Worth area.
They have free backpacks packed with school supplies for students of all ages.
"Every single thing that you need from notebooks to two pencils, mechanical pencils, crayons, colored pencils, notepads, USB drives," said Bowens.
Some of Bowens planning team members are educators so they have a pretty good pulse on what supplies to hand out.
Volunteers will distribute close to 500 backpacks on a first come first serve basis. The back-to-school event is on Aug. 7 at Chosen Vessel Cathedral in the 76119 ZIP Code.
Sapp invites students from any ZIP code who is in need. Helping people is at the heart of his ministry, especially the broken hearted.
After the Uvalde school shooting, Sapp decided parents and students need more than just school supplies.
"It broke me just to see the parents in those positions. I can't imagine losing a child," said Sapp. "Also to supply prayer for them. And their families. Because I understand the anxiety, the fear that the parents actually have sending their kids back to school."
Chosen Vessel Cathedral is surrounded by 15 different elementary and high schools. 76119 has one of the highest numbers of single parent households in the country. The median income is just over $28,000. Plus, many households in the area include families with people who have only a high school diploma and no post-secondary formal education.
Sapp related to single parent households in his area because he and his siblings were all raised by their mother, who kept them in church and off the streets. He and his brothers started their tracks to entrepreneurship by offering haircuts in their neighborhood after perfecting their skills in cutting each other's hair. A trip to the barbershop back then was not in the family budget. Sapp has a soft heart when it comes to people in need.
"The goal is to make sure that when people leave here, that they leave with everything they need to make sure that their young child is equipped," said Sapp.
Sapp's ministry is extremely strong on virtual platforms. Shortly after becoming pastor at Chosen Vessel Cathedral, the pandemic hit forcing him to pivot his ministry and maintain a strong church family forced to worship online. Because of his following online he will also offer the "BACK TO SCHOOL SAFETY PRAYER" over platforms like Facebook and Instagram.
Sapp is also aware the same prayers are needed for other parts of the community as well and invites people to take advantage of the spiritual covering.
"You can go to any of out social media sites, you can go to our church website. I am going to be doing a special prayer for each, and every individual that is going back to school, going back to college, going back to work. The reality is gun violence is not just attached to the school districts," said Sapp. "But it's attached to the world at large."
Regardless of your ZIP code, every student can grab a free backpack and church leaders say more importantly, receive prayer for their safety going back to school. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/fort-worth-pastor-offers-free-backpacks-for-incoming-school-year/287-cbe75f25-d331-4dc1-9355-1fdb6c9e37d5 | 2022-07-28T00:00:00 | 0 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/fort-worth-pastor-offers-free-backpacks-for-incoming-school-year/287-cbe75f25-d331-4dc1-9355-1fdb6c9e37d5 |
DALLAS — A recent North Texas jury verdict involving a national cable company has established itself as a foundational example of the type of extreme punishment that can be handed down in a legally unique situation.
Tuesday, a Dallas County jury awarded $7 billion in punitive damages against Charter Communications, which also operates as Spectrum, for "systemic safety failures" in connection to the 2019 murder of 83-year-old Betty Thomas by one of the technicians. Earlier in June, a jury also said Charter had to pay 90% of $375 million in compensatory damages to Thomas' family.
During this June verdict, the jury found Charter liable for the robbery and stabbing death of Thomas by a company employee. In December 2019, officers arrested 43-year-old Roy Holden Jr., and he later pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to life in prison in April 2021.
The unique nature of this case
One of the key reasons such a harsh punishment came down is because, as a cable company, Spectrum had a "heightened duty" be careful in its hiring process and who they keep on staff, according to the University of North Texas at Dallas (UNT Dallas) Associate Professor of Law Michael Maslanka.
Since Spectrum employees enter the customers' homes, the company has to ensure the homeowners' safety.
"The law imposes duties upon employers," Maslanka said. "The duty of care in a case like this is greater than the normal duty of care because employees are entering the home. The question then becomes -- was that duty of care breached?"
Maslanka practiced employment law for 34 years before becoming a full-time law professor at UNT Dallas in 2015. He has represented some of the world's largest corporations and now specialized in employment law.
The complaint against Charter from the victim's family said the cable company got rid of an employee screening program that Time Warner Cable had in place when Charter bought the multiple-system operator in 2016. Spectrum allegedly hired Holden without verifying his employment history, which would have shown he lied about his work history.
Maslanka said, because of Spectrum's unique situation, he doesn't necessarily see this as "setting a precedent."
"Entering a home is part and parcel of the employee's duty," Maslanka said. "There aren't that many companies that require an entrance."
The key issue for Spectrum
For Maslanka, he said the most important part of this ruling revolves more around what happened soon before the murder than in Holden's past.
"There's one word here that's key, one word: Foreseeability," Maslanka said.
What happened before Thomas' murder is more of an issue in Spectrum's involvement with this crime had the company's "apparent authority."
In the days leading up to Thomas' murder, Holden allegedly made multiple outcries to supervisors about significant personal and financial issues having to do with a divorce that left him no money or a place to stay, according to trial testimony. He also allegedly broke down crying in a meeting telling his supervisor he was not OK.
Maslanka said Spectrum "cloaked" Holden with the authority to commit this crime with the type of access he had. While he went back to Thomas' home the day after her installation on his off day, Thomas would have had no way of knowing that. It wouldn't have been a surprise to her that he was coming back to fix an installation that didn't go well.
"Someone in that state of mind who has access to Spectrum records and to a Spectrum truck, it could be foreseeable that person would engage in a robbery," Maslanka said. "And a robbery can quickly escalate into physical harm including murder."
Record-breaking verdict
This verdict that surpassed $7 billion has the potential to be one of the largest lawsuits or settlements in American history, depending on what source is used or how you are defining what has to be paid.
According to an article from GJEL Accident Attorneys, this verdict would end up as the country's fourth highest verdict or settlement, right below the Volkswagen Emissions Scandal ($14.7 billion). An article from Abels & Annes, P.C. also puts this verdict at the fourth highest of all time, with the same three cases above Spectrum's case.
"In a nutshell, I think the verdict will be upheld," Maslanka said. "Punitive damages will be reduced, but I still think it will be sizable. It's designed to punish. It's designed to change, to reform."
One final bill
Attorneys said Thomas' family later received a bill from Spectrum that included a $58 charge for the murderer’s service call and continued to receive bills for service weeks after Thomas died.
Maslanka said in a case like this with a jury making a decision on punitive damages, these bills are more about what they represent than the lost payment for the family. He said that likely stuck in the minds of the jurors.
"It wasn't just the bill," Maslanka said. "It was the message the bill sent, which is these people can't run their own shop. They have this guy who murdered this woman, and now they're sending a bill after she was murdered. It's not so much the bill as what the bill represents, which is this is a dangerous company. We don't want this company to continue acting this way."
Differences in damages
The difference between punitive damages and compensatory damages involve the message being sent in court, according to Maslanka.
Compensatory damages are designed to make good on a loss suffered by a plaintiff. That can be either in lost wages or mental anguish.
Punitive damages are not designed to make the injured person "whole," Maslanka said. This is focused on punishing someone or a company involved in the case.
"They are designed to punish a wrongdoer so that the wrongdoer does not engage in the conduct again and as a message to others out there and other corporations out there—don't do this again," Maslanka said. "Don't ever do this. That's the difference."
When punitive damages reach the level that they did in this Spectrum case, Maslanka said that very often means the jury is angry about what has been done in the case.
"It's not when a jury feels sympathy, but when they feel anger," Maslanka said. "When they feel anger, they will send a message. Jurors become angry if they think that a corporate defendant has placed itself above the law." | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/north-texas-law-professor-impact-7-billion-spectrum-lawsuit/287-b3063c1a-7451-4e9f-9569-4739db1057ad | 2022-07-28T00:00:06 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/north-texas-law-professor-impact-7-billion-spectrum-lawsuit/287-b3063c1a-7451-4e9f-9569-4739db1057ad |
DALLAS — Today's Wednesday's Child is a shining star who deserves a family who will treasure him.
Mortell, 13, wants to be adopted so badly, his caseworker flew him in to Dallas for this chance to find him a forever family.
Mortell grew up around horses. He used to have a pony, which is why a visit to Rocking M Stables in Dallas was a reminder of better times.
“I learned how to trot, and I'm happy I learned it because I want to keep learning how to do it to get better and better," he said.
Mortell's CPS caseworker says he couldn't wait to fly in from another part of the state for this opportunity.
“He was super excited. I think I got maybe 5, 10 calls in the last week wondering when he was going to come and if he was still coming," said Danielle Grubisic.
"I like horses, I like to dance, and I like to sing," said Mortell, when asked about his special qualities.
He is very talented! Mortell is a star.
"He is just the most amazing kid. He has the brightest personality. He is so outgoing. He can change my mood. He can change a room's mood," said Grubisic.
Mortell is the kind of kid you walk away from feeling better about yourself.
“I look forward to his phone calls. He always makes me smile and even on my hard days, he can turn my frown upside down. He's just a very special kid and I enjoy hearing and being around him," Grubisic said proudly about the child she’s trying to find a forever home for.
Mortell recently turned 13 years old without receiving the true gift he most desires.
"I want a good family who cares about me," he said.
After four years in foster care, Mortell wants a chance to be someone's son.
"He loves to sing, he loves to dance, he loves animals. He has the biggest heart and all he wants is a forever home," said Grubisic.
With that million-dollar smile, Mortell gives his love freely. Our prayer is that a forever family will cherish his love forever.
For more information on how to adopt Mortell, please send all approved home studies to LaQueena Warren at LaQueena.Warren@dfps.texas.gov. Please remember to include Mortell's name within the subject line.
If you're not licensed, please visit adoptchildren.org to find out more information on how to become licensed to foster and/or adopt or contact LaQueena Warren at 817-304-1272.
For more Wednesday's Child stories, click here. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/outreach/wednesdays-child/wednesdays-child-13-year-old-mortell-needs-adopted/287-094d3e20-0ea0-4e77-9029-c5e23cec7128 | 2022-07-28T00:00:12 | 0 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/outreach/wednesdays-child/wednesdays-child-13-year-old-mortell-needs-adopted/287-094d3e20-0ea0-4e77-9029-c5e23cec7128 |
FERRIS, Texas — Dry conditions and triple digit temperatures are among issues fueling grass fires across North Texas. The emergencies are also putting a strain on local resources.
Meantime, the reality of the fires is keeping residents across communities on high alert.
“You can prepare for it, and prepare for it. You’re still going to find yourself behind the 8-ball in an event like this,” said Ferris Fire Chief Brian Horton.
Firefighters in Ferris, Texas were busy Tuesday tackling two large fires, back-to-back.
“It’s dry. Everybody knows that,” Horton said.
One home was destroyed after someone started burning trash outdoors. Winds and dry conditions helped spread the flames.
“We were so lucky this didn’t turn into a Balch Springs,” Horton explained.
Huge grass fires in Balch Springs, Texas damaged 26 homes this week. City leaders believe sparks from a crew’s lawnmower was the cause there.
“It’s concerning when these things pop up, because we know it will be taxing in all ways,” explained Brooks Williams, City Manager for the City of Ferris.
Williams said first responders were also tied up when embers from a neighbor cutting metal spread. A large fire ignited.
“It’s really creating an environment where people need to start thinking about their behaviors, and really stopping and asking themselves is what I’m doing right now absolutely necessary,” Williams added.
The City Manager and Fire Chief said the heat, dry conditions and grass fires are stressing local resources. Equipment is maxed. Mutual aid, at times, is a must. However, the safety of residents and first responders remain top of mind.
“Being here yesterday, I got to see first-hand. I had exhausted first responders. Some of them having to get IVs to recuperate. I had families who were exhausted. There was a family in this house that had to be taken out by one of the members of our first responders’ team. It’s just a scary situation when that happens,” Williams explained.
While fire dangers remain a reality, some believe only a significant rain event may help slow things down.
Chief Horton said the potential for that could be months away.
”It’s not going to get any better. It’s going to get a lot worse, before it gets better.” | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/scary-situation-grass-fires-testing-limits-first-responders-north-texas/287-91cf6cbe-1ae7-43f1-b856-7e2df0a9dba1 | 2022-07-28T00:00:18 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/scary-situation-grass-fires-testing-limits-first-responders-north-texas/287-91cf6cbe-1ae7-43f1-b856-7e2df0a9dba1 |
TARRANT COUNTY, Texas — Twenty-four inmates in Tarrant County are choosing a new life.
Sheriff Bill Waybourn said the group graduated from a new prisoner reintegration program called Pathways to Helping Offenders Pursue Excellence or Pathways to H.O.P.E.
The program prepares inmates for life after prison by helping them find jobs, housing and build skills.
The program required the completion of a 40-hour class that focused on financial training, resume writing and job skills.
Post-graduation, each inmate waits to be released from jail so they can finish another 18-month program with Pathways to H.O.P.E with the support of a mentor.
That mentor will help them reintegrate into society.
Waybourn said similar programs around the country have reduced recidivism rates from 70% into the single digits.
He said he’s hopeful their program will do the same. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/tarrant-county-inmates-are-closer-to-life-beyond-bars-thanks-to-program/287-72287957-e5f3-498e-bd5f-6250e0525f3a | 2022-07-28T00:00:24 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/tarrant-county-inmates-are-closer-to-life-beyond-bars-thanks-to-program/287-72287957-e5f3-498e-bd5f-6250e0525f3a |
DALLAS — A Hawaii couple is accused of stealing the identities of dead Texas babies to obtain fake passports, DOD identity and social security cards, according to federal prosecutors.
And it worked for years.
A criminal complaint filed in Hawaii federal court says Walter Primrose and Gwynn Morrison assumed the identities of Bobby Edward Fort and Julie Lyn Montague, respectively. Both babies died in Texas in the 60s.
A federal court filing says Primrose even wiggled his way into the Coast Guard, where he held a secret clearance as a defense contractor and as an avionics electrical technician.
Former director of the CIA Porter Goss said investigators need to first determine a motive.
"Whether its an economic matter or criminal matter of fraud, or whether there's some national security involved," Goss said.
The criminal complaint does not explicitly say why the married couple used stolen identities. But there are clues.
In 1987, their Nacogdoches home was "foreclosed by the bank," according to a court document. That's the same year the couple renamed and remade themselves, prosecutors alleged.
Federal agents also seized photographs from the couple's home in Hawaii "wearing what have been identified as KGB uniforms."
Goss said that alone is not enough evidence to suggest the pair were acting as Russian spies. But, he said, you also can't rule it out.
"You never want to dismiss lightly the potential of a sleeper agent," Goss told WFAA.
The couple was arrested on July 22 in Kapolei, Hawaii. Each face a federal conspiracy charge, false statement on a passport application and aggravated identity theft.
It's painful for the family of Julie Lyn Montague, the baby girl who died in Texas in 1968, whose identity prosecutors say Morrison stole. WFAA spoke to her 92-year-old father over the phone.
"I tell you what, I believe the world is full of crooks," John Montague said. "Why use somebody name that's already passed away, and bring that back? Then the family finds out... you always want them to rest in peace."
Montague has two other daughters and son. His daughter, Tonda, said she was in complete shock when she saw her late sister's name in the news.
"To see a photo of a person who has your sister's name in, in a KGB uniform, it's just wow. Crazy," Ferguson said.
The criminal complaint does not say how the couple picked the identities they used, but noted identity thieves often go to cemeteries and look for graves with ages close to their own.
Prosecutors noted the two babies whose identities were stolen were buried only 14 miles apart in Marble Falls and Burnet, Texas.
That complaint also says the couple went to high school together in Port Lavaca, Texas, and attended Stephen F. Austin University together, too.
Another federal court filing says Morrison, sometime ago, lived in Romania, while that country was within the Communist bloc, and that he did not report several trips to Canada, while he did report other foreign travel.
Prosecutors are expected to unveil additional evidence at a hearing Thursday.
Attorneys for Primrose and Morrison said they have no comment when WFAA reached out. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/texas/hawaii-couple-accused-using-dead-texas-infants-identities-ties-to-russia/287-ba622d43-70a3-43bf-ab14-1ad45f6663fd | 2022-07-28T00:00:30 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/texas/hawaii-couple-accused-using-dead-texas-infants-identities-ties-to-russia/287-ba622d43-70a3-43bf-ab14-1ad45f6663fd |
Hanover County Board of Supervisors Chair Angela Kelly-Wiecek began Wednesday’s board meeting by addressing an influx of questions from Hanover residents about removing a School Board member, following a letter from the Hanover NAACP urging the action.
“Our role here is to appoint someone,” Kelly-Wiecek said. “Once that person is appointed, it really is a court process for removals.”
A quote from Hanover County School Board member Johnny Redd in a Times-Dispatch article on Tuesday caused a groundswell among some Hanover residents.
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In the statement, Redd called Hanover NAACP President Patricia Hunter-Jordan an “angry African American lady.”
The comment was in response to an open letter from the Hanover NAACP urging the county board of supervisors to “review and reconsider” the appointment of some School Board members including Redd.
His statement in full read, “Have you done any research on the source of this letter? Does this letter represent the views of the Hanover NAACP or the views of an angry African American lady who holds the title of president of that organization? Check it out — do a little research on Pat Hunter-Jordan — that could result in an interesting story for a truth-seeking investigative reporter. I will not be making any further comment.”
Hunter-Jordan addressed the Board of Supervisors at Wednesday's meeting.
“I come here this afternoon with a smile on my face, and I hope that reflects that I am not an angry Black woman, which I was called yesterday by someone that you placed on our School Board,” Hunter-Jordan said. “I was elected as president of the Hanover NAACP. Mr. Redd was appointed by four people.”
She continued on to request that the School Board receive training that includes learning how to be respectful and show integrity. She also asked the board to begin appointing School Board members who will reflect Hanover County’s diverse population.
Hunter-Jordan’s comments were followed by several others who spoke out against Redd.
“The language that was uttered by a certain gentleman about (Hunter-Jordan) is a slap in the face to Ms. Jordan, a slap in the face to my wife, to my two daughters, to people who look like me,” one resident said.
According to Kelly-Wiecek, the process to remove a School Board member requires a majority of the county board of supervisors to petition a circuit court. The circuit court would then need to make a finding of removal, which generally would involve some sort of wrongdoing or malfeasance.
“(It) is not an action that this board may summarily take,” she said Wednesday.
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The NAACP letter said that Redd “delivered a message of prejudice, unprofessional zealotry, and ignorance of the needs of a diverse public school division,” in an interview with the Times-Dispatch in May, before he was appointed to the School Board. In the May interview, Redd said he wanted to focus on education instead of “promoting social change that is illogical, immoral and/or ungodly.”
Mechanicsville Supervisor Canova Peterson, who appointed Redd in late May, told the Times-Dispatch on Wednesday that the NAACP letter is filled with innuendo, and he is not reconsidering Redd's appointment.
“The full board appointed him and the full board would have to be the one to remove him; but that can only happen for cause,” Peterson said. “Agreeing or disagreeing with his position or vote is not legitimate cause.” | https://richmond.com/news/local/education/hanover-school-board-s-redd-draws-backlash-over-angry-african-american-comment/article_113bd834-273a-5f06-a36c-9738605f3408.html | 2022-07-28T00:01:03 | 1 | https://richmond.com/news/local/education/hanover-school-board-s-redd-draws-backlash-over-angry-african-american-comment/article_113bd834-273a-5f06-a36c-9738605f3408.html |
The Kenosha Unified School District is still seeking volunteers to serve on its Audit/Budget/Finance, Curriculum/Program, Personnel, and Planning/Facilities committees.
Interested parties should have a background related to the committee on which they wish to serve and a desire to share their professional expertise with the district.
Prospective committee members must live in Kenosha, Pleasant Prairie or Somers and submit a letter of intent citing qualifications and reasons they wish to serve. Selected members will serve a one-year term and will be required to attend the quarterly meetings, which are slated for 5 p.m. or later on Oct. 11, 2022, Feb. 14, 2023, April 11, 2023, and June 13, 2023.
Interested parties should mail letters of intent to the Educational Support Center, ATTN: Stacy Stephens, 3600 52nd St., Kenosha, WI 53144, no later than Friday, Aug. 5. They also may be faxed to 262-359-7672, emailed to srstephe@kusd.edu, or dropped off at the Educational Support Center between the hours of 7:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.
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For additional information, please call 262-359-6320 or visit www.kusd.edu/sites/default/files/document-library/english/8850.pdf. | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/kenosha-unified-still-needs-those-willing-to-serve-on-committees/article_0bf77db8-0b59-11ed-a65b-d30ba2fc4395.html | 2022-07-28T00:01:09 | 0 | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/kenosha-unified-still-needs-those-willing-to-serve-on-committees/article_0bf77db8-0b59-11ed-a65b-d30ba2fc4395.html |
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — The upcoming trial for the grandmother of a 6-year-old Flagstaff boy who died after being locked in a closet and denied food has been called off.
Ann Martinez was scheduled to go on trial next week on first-degree murder, kidnapping and child abuse charges. Instead, a judge will determine whether she's psychologically fit to stand trial.
Coconino County Superior Court Judge Ted Reed made the referral Wednesday for a determination of competency.
Martinez has pleaded not guilty to the charges in the death of her grandson, Deshaun Martinez. An autopsy found the boy, who weighed just 18 pounds (8.1 kilograms), died of starvation in March 2020.
The boy's parents — Elizabeth Archibeque and Anthony Martinez — also face murder, kidnapping and child abuse charges in Coconino County Superior Court. Their cases are being tried separately from the grandmother's case.
The boy's parents initially attributed their son’s malnourished state to a medical condition and to ingesting diet or caffeine pills. Eventually, they told police they kept Deshaun and his older brother in a closet for 16 hours a day and gave them little to eat. The brother survived.
Police said the boys’ confinement was punishment for stealing food while the parents slept. Their two sisters were found healthy in the apartment where they all lived.
Ann Martinez has acknowledged spanking the boys with a red clothes hanger and said she tried to give them food but Archibeque wouldn’t allow it, according to court documents.
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Labor secretary tell Detroit Job Corps students they have the tools for success
"You are the future of your city," U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh told students in a visit to the Detroit Job Corps Center on Wednesday.
"I want everyone in this room, particularly the young people, and the older people like myself, to be successful," Walsh said. "So we're going to do everything we can to put you on a pathway to success, because you are the future of your city, you're the future of your state, you're the future of your country."
Members of the Detroit Job Corps Center's elected student government then gave Walsh a tour of the campus, showing him where they learn, study and live.
The center is one of 131 Job Corps programs in the United States. Administered by the U.S. Department of Labor since its formation in 1964, the Job Corps helps young people age 16 to 24 finish their high school education while providing vocational training and helping them find jobs. Eighty students currently participate in the Detroit Job Corps while the center works back up toward its maximum capacity of 296 students following COVID restrictions. Students can stay for up to two years unless special additional time is needed.
Walsh spent time speaking directly with each student after his tour. Students were grouped up into four areas of technical training: office administration, electrical, facilities maintenance, and security and protective services,
While speaking with the security group, he called over three members of his security detail in attendance, and had them answer questions the students had.
One female student told Walsh's female head of security that pressure-point control-tactics training was her favorite part of learning because "it's the only time we can get the boys on the mats."
Walsh then sat down with members of student government. One asked Walsh how he can reduce the unemployment rate in poor communities. In his response, Walsh referenced the overall unemployment rate, which was 3.6% in June according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and compared it to the black unemployment rate, which was 5.8%.
The answer, he said, was, "Really making sure that we're preparing people for good jobs, so they have the skills, and trades and ability to work."
Walsh said the Department of Labor is trying to make the Job Corps as relevant today as it was nearly 60 years ago when it was created.
“We have a 2.0 strategic plan that we’re working on to adjust every element of the program, how we recruit students, how we train them, how we connect them to employers. Then we’re also looking to partner with employers that offer students career ladders, an opportunity that they can start and build, companies they can grow in.” | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2022/07/27/labor-secretary-tell-detroit-job-corps-students-they-have-tools-success/10159876002/ | 2022-07-28T00:06:45 | 0 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2022/07/27/labor-secretary-tell-detroit-job-corps-students-they-have-tools-success/10159876002/ |
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On Wednesday, Eddie Garcia walked between guard rails at the Hanger Clinic in Dallas as a prosthetic team analyzed each step to fine-tune his new microprocessor-controlled legs.
"You learn to walk again," Garcia said. "How can you be pinned like that, crushed for so many hours?"
Garcia was in a workplace accident in Oklahoma last year. The 49-year-old veteran crane operator from Mansfield was trapped under his crane. Efforts to move the crane to free him failed, so a surgical extraction team that was called in took over.
"You don't go to a scene expecting to amputate two legs," Dr. Lindsay Davault said. "She's the one who saved my life. She's the one who amputated my legs to get me out of the crane."
Davault said she was just doing her job as a surgeon, as unusual as the job was that day.
"We should all be more like Eddie," Davault said. "He's the most amazing, inspirational person. So driven and determined."
Garcia is determined to operate a crane again. He's already back to doing many of the things he says he was told he'd never do again, with the help of his new computerized limbs.
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"We want to help people get back to the best version of their life," said Danica Nordstrom, manager of the Hanger Clinic. "No one ever wants to be our patient."
"I got no legs, but I'm not going to give up," Garcia said. "When people say I can't be an operator again, no, I'm going to be an operator again. You can't go fishing again? I went fishing already. You can't cut your grass? Hey, I'm pushing my lawnmower!"
Nordstrom said Garcia is ahead of schedule, moving to the more advanced microprocessor limbs less than a year after he started walking on his starter "stubbies" prosthetics.
"I'm gonna be that person standing tall," Garcia said. "I'm just so happy to be alive!" | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/dallas-prosthetics-clinic-helps-double-amputee-get-back-on-his-feet/3033444/ | 2022-07-28T00:07:45 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/dallas-prosthetics-clinic-helps-double-amputee-get-back-on-his-feet/3033444/ |
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It's been two days since a grass fire damaged more than two dozen homes in Balch Springs.
On Wednesday, the fire marshal said the number of homes considered a total loss is now 11, which is up from nine reported the day before. In all, 27 homes were affected.
"We were here watching it when the house was burning down, it's just sad because all you can really do is just sit there and watch everything get destroyed without being able to do anything about it," said Angela Quinonez, whose childhood home backs up to the field that caught fire.
Her parents, grandmother, two sisters, brother-in-law and nephew all live inside the home, Quinonez said. She said her little sister, 14, was home at the time and was able to make it out safely. Their dog, a chihuahua survived but their turtle did not.
The home no longer has a roof and everything inside is just a pile of debris.
"Pretty much nothing," said Quinonez, who is 20 years old.
But there was something they were able to get back with the help of firefighters Wednesday morning: a folder that had their passports, social security cards and other important documents.
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Her father is originally from Guatemala and her mother is from Mexico. They came to the country more than two decades ago and also became citizens, documentation they were able to salvage.
"They're citizens, those are the papers that they needed because if you lose that, it's a whole process," she explained.
Mostly everything was intact, even though there was some charring of the folder and some water damage.
"At least we got to save the most important papers that we, my family, needed," she said.
Balch Springs Fire Marshal Sean Davis said the owner of the private land that backs up to the homes hired a contractor to mow the field. There was a spark that started the fire.
"The city was aware that the grass needed to be mowed and was working with, through the citation process, through the code enforcement process, to get compliance on getting grass mowed, so they've been dealing with this since May," said Davis.
The question many want to know is, will anyone be held responsible for what happened.
"Currently there isn't anything criminal that's going to be charged to anyone, however, there could be civil ramifications but that's going to fall back on the insurance companies," said Davis.
For now, families displaced by the fire are focused on finding a new place to call home for the time being.
There are resources for neighbors in need, click here for more details on how to help. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/family-recovers-citizenship-papers-passports-and-other-documents-from-fire-destroyed-balch-springs-home/3033479/ | 2022-07-28T00:07:58 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/family-recovers-citizenship-papers-passports-and-other-documents-from-fire-destroyed-balch-springs-home/3033479/ |
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A man accused of punching two women after a minor crash on North Central Expressway in Dallas overnight Friday has been identified and charged with assault.
According to Dallas Police, 25-year-old Jaleel Sheehy faces two counts of misdemeanor assault after being identified by a tipster as the man who allegedly punched two women in a video shared on Instagram and TikTok over the weekend.
The women who shared the video said they were involved in a minor crash and stopped to exchange insurance information when the man became hostile and started punching them in the head and face.
According to an arrest warrant affidavit obtained by NBC 5, when the man started punching the driver her passenger started recording video with her phone. The man turned to leave, but then reversed course and attacked the passenger as well. According to the women, the man stopped punching only when a woman got out of his SUV and told him to stop.
After the man drove away, the women left the highway and flagged down a police officer along Cedar Plaza Lane. They reported being sideswiped along the 2400 block of North Central Expressway at about 12:15 a.m. and that the assault took place after the collision when both drivers turned on their hazard lights and pulled over to apparently exchange insurance information.
Both women refused medical treatment, police said.
Police said Sheehy was taken into custody Tuesday on an arrest warrant for misdemeanor assault and later charged with an additional count. He was booked into the Dallas County Jail and freed after posting a bond of $3,000.
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COLUMBIA COUNTY, Pa. — A few dozen people are without power after a helicopter came crashing down in Columbia County.
It happened around 3 p.m. Wednesday afternoon near Bloomsburg.
The police chief on the scene tells us the helicopter was spraying crops.
It went down after the tail got caught in some power lines.
That's why roughly 60 people near Bloomsburg are without power.
The pilot was assessed but refused medical treatment.
No injuries were reported after the helicopter crash in Columbia County.
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SCRANTON, Pa. — Starting Thursday, parts of the trail at Lake Scranton will be closed to foot traffic.
Pennsylvania American Water says the walking path will be closed from the area where the path meets the roadway at the small stone bridge to the dam near the fishing pier.
The path is closing as a precaution because of increased truck traffic on the road.
It will be closed on weekdays until August 6th but will remain open on the weekends in Scranton.
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When John McGowan completed RAGBRAI last summer, he deemed it a "one and done event." The 55-year old native of Cape Girardeau, Missouri was unsure if he'd ride again.
"It is quite a commitment both prepping it, doing it and then experiencing it," McGowan said. "I would have put this on the bucket list, check it off and move on."
But a push from his brother-in-law Chris Reeves and Chris' oldest son Sam, McGowan decided to give it one more run. Now, it may turn into a yearly adventure.
Now, Chris wants it to become a family tradition that Sam and his son Jaxson Reeves do each year. "I hope it is a tradition," Chris said.
There was a path during last year's route that passed through Parkersburg and Janesville, where Sam and Chris currently live. They joined McGowan for the 70 miles that started in Iowa Falls and ended in Waterloo.
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That lit the spark.
"Just riding with everybody, it is a great time," Sam said. "They're passing you, but they're still cheering you on."
Chris and McGowan are doing the complete seven-day bike ride through the state of Iowa. It has led to an increase in training for Chris, which he knew would happen if he did the complete route.
He pointed out that the mental part of training beats out the physical.
"It is hard work, but the fun made it worth it," Chris said. "There are days that I had to ride 40 or 50 miles. If you can do (that), you can do anything. It is not about the miles, but how much time your butt is in the seat."
At each stop last year and this year, McGowan grabs his meals from local fire stations. It isn't just a breakfast here or a lunch there, it is every meal.
He helped raise funds for a pair of fire stations and a fire truck during RAGBRAI 2021.
"There's nothing like the Iowa hospitality," McGowan said. "That was one of the things that meant a lot to me. I can tell you that Iowa firefighters make the best pancakes. I feel better giving back to these communities."
While Chris and McGowan will continue their bike ride, Sam will be the driver for the camper with Jaxson by his side. Sam's plan is to bike at least one leg this year, but he isn't 100 percent certain.
"I eventually will do the full route," Sam said. "From now on it will be at least a leg every year."
What made Chris smile was that Jaxson biked the first two miles on the Pocahontas to Emmetsburg ride. It may have just been a little bit of cycling, but the push was there.
And for that, it could be a yearly trip. Chris did say it will be on a year-by-year basis as Sam has another child just over a year old.
"That was so fun to watch all four us ride together and that's a proud papa moment," Chris said.
Zach Martin is a sports reporter for the Globe Gazette. Reach him via email at zachary.martin@globegazette.com and follow him on Twitter @zach_martin95. | https://globegazette.com/news/local/potential-ragbrai-tradition-abound-for-john-mcgowan-reeves-family/article_7e4673f5-9fce-55c0-aa20-15159649ba53.html | 2022-07-28T00:12:12 | 1 | https://globegazette.com/news/local/potential-ragbrai-tradition-abound-for-john-mcgowan-reeves-family/article_7e4673f5-9fce-55c0-aa20-15159649ba53.html |
First time RAGBRAI riders Ann and Mikel Brandhorst from Madrid, Iowa, peddled up to the information table at Newman Catholic School around 2 p.m. looking for directions to their campsite and an end to their day’s journey.
“We've never done more than a 72-mile ride before, so we were kind of intimidated by it at first,” Mikel said. “But there was a nice tail wind today, and it was fairly flat,” Mikel Brandhorst said.
Once they wrapped their minds around the idea, the ride wasn’t too bad, except for the turn north where they began to ride into the wind.
The couple began the journey at 5:15 a.m.
”We’re not the fastest riders in the world,” Ann said with a smile. “It was fun to see all the little towns. There were a lot of homes and families having little stops today, more so than the other days.”
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“And we had a lot of good, deep discussions with each other (along the route),” Mikel added.
Mary Loden covers city and county government for the Globe Gazette. You can reach her by emailing Mary.Loden@globegazette.com | https://globegazette.com/news/local/ragbrai-first-timers-complete-100/article_a538ccf6-4401-55e7-a18c-cfd5052e03a3.html | 2022-07-28T00:12:18 | 1 | https://globegazette.com/news/local/ragbrai-first-timers-complete-100/article_a538ccf6-4401-55e7-a18c-cfd5052e03a3.html |
For the most part, it was smooth sailing for law enforcement during the Register's Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa's stay in Mason City.
Local law enforcement was working hard to ensure the safety of the RAGBRAI riders and Mason City residents. Mason City Police Chief Jeff Brinkley said around 2 p.m. one call did come in to the police department.
"I think we have one cyclist that wiped out over on Pierce (Avenue) near (Highway) 122. That was a call we took in about an hour ago. Other than that, no issues," said Brinkley.
By late afternoon, residents were starting to feel the congestion that goes with an event like the RAGBRAI, according to Brinkley.
"We're just going to keep on managing it," said Brinkley.
Brinkley advised those who are parking at Southbridge Mall or other nearby locations to expect a short walk to get there. He also advised people to be on the lookout for riders while walking.
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"If you're walking on your phone and those kinds of things, don't do that. We tell you not to text and drive; don't text and walk (today)," Brinkley said.
"Looking forward to have some fun tonight and hopefully it all goes well," said Brinkley.
Abby covers education and entertainment for the Globe Gazette. Follow her on Twitter at @MkayAbby. Email her at Abby.Koch@GlobeGazette.com | https://globegazette.com/news/local/things-going-smoothly-in-mason-city-police-say/article_7bd387f1-462c-50c0-b8ac-e98f63887068.html | 2022-07-28T00:12:25 | 0 | https://globegazette.com/news/local/things-going-smoothly-in-mason-city-police-say/article_7bd387f1-462c-50c0-b8ac-e98f63887068.html |
BIG SPRING, Texas — For the next five years, the City of Big Spring has a water conservation plan in place if the city ever has to start rationing water.
It's a plan that's required by the TCEQ.
"It’s just in place in case something drastic does happen," said Shane Bowles, Public Works Director.
Every five years the plan is reworked and improved.
"So really what we’re doing is tweaking it, going through it, making sure it makes sense, see if anything has changed in our system in those five years," said Bowles.
If the plan needs to be enacted, he says the city will first start with irrigation.
"Normally when they first start rationing water it would begin with irrigation. You'll hear you can only water your grass once a week or only on Thursdays. So that’s typically how it starts that way, we start rationing water. Hopefully it doesn’t get more severe than that but those plans are set in in case we need to," Bowles said.
As for if and when this plan would need to be used, if West Texas continues to not see much rainfall then the plan could be called into action.
"We’re not getting as much rainfall as we want and those levels are dropping and if keep dropping having this drought and they keep dropping then there may be a time where those are placed into effect for contingencies on drought conservation," said Bowles.
However, he says there's nothing to be worried about at this time. Because of the water district the city is in, there are more than enough sources of water.
"Luckily with our water district there’s three different lakes we can pull off of for water sources, so if it does get to a point where one lake loses water we can pull from two others," Bowles said. "We even have emergency wells if those go dry. But we’ve never had that situation before." | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/city-of-big-spring-approves-water-conservation-plan/513-119225ed-3f9d-45ac-afb1-292b2c55bd0c | 2022-07-28T00:12:56 | 0 | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/city-of-big-spring-approves-water-conservation-plan/513-119225ed-3f9d-45ac-afb1-292b2c55bd0c |
ODESSA, Texas — COVID-19 vaccines are now available for kids as young as 6 months old.
Infants and young children were the last group to get approved for the vaccine, which only happened about a month ago.
Stetson Provence just turned three. For his birthday he got new toys, a new bike and a COVID-19 vaccine.
"He didn't cry he, didn't say he was sore; he didn't have any side effects," said his mother Amanda Provence.
The Sunflower Pharmacy in Odessa is where he got the vaccine.
"Right now, we have vaccines available for ages 6 months and up," said Brian Meyer, owner of the Sunflower Pharmacy. "We have Moderna and Pfizer for ages 6 months and up."
Giving her son the vaccine was important to Provence because of how she feels about the virus and the research behind the vaccine.
"This vaccine was the last one to be approved because it was the one they were most careful with, the most testing, they wanted to make sure that it didn't have negative effects." said Provence. "Even if it doesn't prevent you from contracting the virus it offers a layer of protection."
The vaccines for this age group is a different dosage but the same vaccine.
"They're a smaller dose they come in a different vaccine vile as well." said Meyer
Provence also wants everyone to respect her decisions, and she will do the same.
"It's everyone's personal choice and it's like I'm going to respect your personal choice for not getting it, I hope you can respect my choice for having my children get it," said Provence. | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/covid-19-vaccines-available-children-6-months-old/513-277c7077-9a3a-494e-890f-20f895cd32b2 | 2022-07-28T00:12:57 | 1 | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/covid-19-vaccines-available-children-6-months-old/513-277c7077-9a3a-494e-890f-20f895cd32b2 |
An ex-adviser to former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was killed in a crash after police say a Lyft driver ordered him out of the car in the middle of a Delaware highway over the weekend.
Delaware State Police on Wednesday said the ride-hailing driver, who initially fled, was cooperating with authorities and no charges had been filed in connection with the death of 43-year-old Sidney Wolf of Clarksburg, Maryland, according to a statement from police provided to WRDE-TV.
The crash happened around 2 a.m. Sunday after a group of six friends ordered a Lyft ride from Dewey Beach back to their residence in Bethany Beach, police said. As they traveled south on U.S. Route 1, a dispute arose between the passengers and the Lyft driver, prompting the driver to stop in the left lane of the highway and demand that all six passengers get out of the car, police said.
That's when police said Wolf got out of the car and was struck by a passing Toyota Corolla. He was pronounced dead at the scene. No other injuries were reported.
Wolf had been a senior policy advisor for Cuomo in Washington, D.C., the Albany Times-Union reported. Cuomo spokesperson Richard Azzopardi told the newspaper that Wolf was “always smart, nice, prepared.”
Cuomo tweeted that he was shocked by the news, calling Wolf "a phenomenal public servant who worked relentlessly for the betterment of all NY’ers.”
Wolf recently worked as the reelection campaign manager for Montgomery County Councilmember Sidney Katz, who called Wolf's death "absolutely heartbreaking.”
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In a statement, a Lyft spokesperson told news outlets that the company has “permanently removed the driver from the Lyft community.”
“We are heartbroken by this incident," the spokesperson said. "Our hearts are with Mr. Wolf’s loved ones during this incredibly difficult time, and we’ve reached out to offer our support.”
Police said that the driver has been identified and has been cooperative with investigators. An investigation is ongoing. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/ex-cuomo-staffer-killed-after-kicked-out-of-lyft-on-highway-in-delaware-beach-town-police/3798061/ | 2022-07-28T00:25:57 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/ex-cuomo-staffer-killed-after-kicked-out-of-lyft-on-highway-in-delaware-beach-town-police/3798061/ |
New York is inching toward becoming the first U.S. city to charge motorists an extra fee for entering its most congested areas.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority said Wednesday a long-delayed environmental assessment should be released by federal regulators next month, to be followed by public hearings. The MTA also named the members of a board that will decide the plan’s pricing, discounts and exemptions.
The practice is commonly referred to as congestion pricing and has been used in cities including London, Singapore and Stockholm. In New York, motorists entering Manhattan below 60th Street would be charged a toll electronically. The revenue, estimated at $1 billion annually, would be used to back borrowing for capital improvements to the MTA’s subway and bus systems.
While ridership on New York's subways has been slow to rebound slowly from the COVID-19 pandemic, and currently hovers around just 60 percent of pre-pandemic levels, vehicle traffic at bridges and tunnels began to return to normal levels last year.
The tolls aren’t expected to be implemented until late next year at the earliest. New York’s Legislature approved a conceptual plan for congestion pricing in 2019 and it was initially projected to be in place in 2021. But the pandemic and a lack of guidance from federal regulators on the type of environmental review that was required combined to stall the project. That guidance was provided last year.
While many riders are skeptical the money will pay for actual improvements for subways and buses, some drivers say it may be time to make money out of the mess that is New York City traffic.
"It’s business, it’s what you have to do. You wanna stop congestion, pay the $16," said delivery driver Tony Claudio.
It is not yet known how much the congestion pricing toll will be, whether it will be $16 or even more. Five people on Wednesday were named to the traffic mobility review board, which is tasked with deciding how much the toll will be — and how many New Yorkers are exempt.
Kathy Wylde, of the Partnership for New York, was named a member of the board, and said that determining exemptions could potentially be a major sticking point, as New Yorkers and New Jerseyans battle for a free ride.
“Carve outs are an invitation to cheating. If you have too many exemptions, it’s an invitation to gaming the system," Wylde said.
The plan is expected to get U.S. Department of Transportation approval by Aug. 10. Then, the MTA will hold a series of hearings at the end of next month to collect feedback. After that, the Federal Highway Administration must issue a final approval to the environmental plan before the project can go forward.
At least one MTA board member is planning to oppose the congestion pricing plan, saying the economy is too uncertain at this time.
"They gotta find a better way," said MTA Board Member David Mack.
Some lawmakers in New Jersey have said the plan is unfair because motorists already pay tolls at bridges and tunnels to enter New York, and the money from congestion pricing won't be used to improve public transit in New Jersey. Some motorists paying tolls to enter Manhattan from New Jersey are expected to receive discounts or be exempt. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/new-york-city-moving-ahead-with-congestion-pricing-toll-plan/3798060/ | 2022-07-28T00:26:03 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/new-york-city-moving-ahead-with-congestion-pricing-toll-plan/3798060/ |
POMEROY, OH (WOWK) — The Meigs County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the alleged assault of a child.
Sheriff Keith Wood says it happened early Sunday morning on Kerr Street in Pomeroy.
Investigators have done some interviews and arrested one person.
Sheriff Wood says additional charges are pending against others.
He is asking anyone with information to call the department at 740-992-3371 if you have any information. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/reports-of-alleged-assault-of-child-in-pomeroy/ | 2022-07-28T00:27:39 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/reports-of-alleged-assault-of-child-in-pomeroy/ |
FLOYD COUNTY, KY (WOWK) — Hundreds of people came together Wednesday to support Floyd County Deputy Darrin Lawson, who was injured during the tragic ambush attack that killed three law enforcement officers and a K-9 on June 30.
Lawson was one of seven people shot during that attack in Allen.
Lawson is in the hospital after having his eighth surgery. He is currently fighting to keep his leg.
Organizers of Wednesday’s event say they sold around 1,500 meals, raising more than $9,000. All the money will be going towards Lawson and his family.
Organizers say they have more fundraisers planned for the future.
Friends and family are hoping that Deputy Lawson will be released from the hospital, at least temporarily, later this week. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/thousands-raised-during-fundraiser-for-deputy-injured-in-floyd-county-ambush/ | 2022-07-28T00:27:45 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/thousands-raised-during-fundraiser-for-deputy-injured-in-floyd-county-ambush/ |
An active monsoon season in northern Arizona has soaked the fire-impacted watersheds near Flagstaff, making them more reactive to rain and prone to post-fire flooding.
The problem could be seen on Tuesday when downstream flooding occurred in at least six of the fire-impacted watersheds above the Timberline neighborhood despite relatively low measurements from rain gauges in the area. Some of those neighborhoods were hit by rain again on Wednesday.
For residents, the battle to protect their homes against flooding has become a daily chore while the city and county continue to assist with emergency measures and long-term strategies.
Throughout the Flagstaff area, publicly available rain gauge data has been used to trigger flood warnings and provide residents with information about local rainfall. But on Tuesday, the data was relatively inconsistent with what was experienced on the ground.
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For example, gauges on the Lenox-Wupatki Trails watershed reported .2 inches of rain during a monsoon event — an amount that would normally be considered negligible — while down below in the Wupatki Trails neighborhood, floodwaters filled culverts, briefly topped the road, and sent muddy rivers through multiple properties.
Flood activity was also reported in the Government Tank, Paintbrush, Campbell, Copeland and Brandis watersheds. Of these, the rain gauge on the Brandis Watershed was the only one that reported rainfall consistent with expectations of what would cause flooding — about 1.1 inches in an hour.
There are multiple contributing factors to this disparity, but one is the fact that area watersheds are “saturated,” and less able to absorb rainfall, said Lucinda Andreani, Coconino County deputy manager.
“As the season goes on, you get more saturation in those watersheds,” Andreani said. “Right now they are above saturated, both on forest and off, so we’re going to see more and more responses. A lighter rainfall will create impacts that we would not necessarily have seen a month ago.”
Another contributing factor to the disparity between rain gauge data and downstream flood activity has to do with the placement of existing rain gauges, Andreani said. The National Weather Service estimated that despite what the gauges recorded, radar data suggests that an inch to inch in a half of rain fell on some of the upper parts of the impacted watersheds.
Coconino County has been working with the U.S. Forest Service to place more gauges in wilderness areas higher up on the watersheds in order to get a more accurate read of rainfall in fire-impacted areas. By sheer luck, on Tuesday the county had a staff member installing one such gauge on the mountain above Government Tank.
“He called and said, ‘I'm up here. It's dumping, and I just saw about a 10-foot-high wall of water go down the mountain,’” Andreani reported. “Based on that call, the flood director made a decision to issue the warning, because he also knows that everything's saturated now.”
It turned out to be the right call, as flood impacts were felt downstream soon after.
One of the more heavily impacted neighborhoods was Wupatki Trails, which has seen multiple instances of flood activity so far this season. Around noon on Tuesday, Chase Wilson stood outside his home, watching as a deep torrent of turbid water slammed into mud berms and county-placed concrete barriers in his front yard.
Wilson, whose home sustained significant flood damage about a month ago, said he hasn’t been able to move his family back in or repair the damage due to a perpetual onslaught of flood activity. He said he’s “stuck” trying to adapt, and taking his insurance carrier to court to try to get help covering repair and mitigation expenses -- which contractor Donald Wilson estimated could be near $250,000.
“I’ve been in situations where it's been tough. And there have been steps forward,” Chase Wilson said. “But I don't even know if I can do anything with this at all. I don't even know if the amount of money I’d need to put in something like this is worth it. I don’t know that next step, and I don’t know where I'm going to put my family for the next week.”
“And they’re saying this could happen for five years,” he said.
Andreani hopes that the county will be able to improve flood mitigation in the area on a much shorter timeline. By the fall, she hopes that the county will be on its way to expanding flood mitigation throughout the area affected by the Pipeline Fire, including channels in the Wupatki Trails neighborhood.
“Right now that channel capacity is about 150 cubic feet per second,” Andreani said. “And the proposal is to increase that to upwards of 1,500 to 1,800 cubic feet per second.”
County estimates of the two largest events in the neighborhood suggest floodwaters have flowed through Wupatki Trails at volumes between 1,500 and 2,000 cubic feet per second.
“Whatever mitigations we put in place, we can't assume that it won't happen again,” Wilson said. “We have to assume that it will.”
The National Weather Service forecasts high potential for heavy rain through Tuesday, with at least a 70% chance of precipitation each day.
Fratelli Pizza, a past employer of Chase Wilson, has organized a fundraiser for the Wilson family. On Tuesday, Aug. 2, 10% of profits from Fratelli’s three locations will benefit the Wilson family.
Mama Burger donated 10% of its sales on Tuesday to the family as well. | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/flagstaff-watersheds-are-saturated-which-could-spell-more-floods-with-less-rain/article_8c38d34a-0d3f-11ed-8484-a792f6cebeea.html | 2022-07-28T00:30:40 | 1 | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/flagstaff-watersheds-are-saturated-which-could-spell-more-floods-with-less-rain/article_8c38d34a-0d3f-11ed-8484-a792f6cebeea.html |
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — The Birmingham Police Department is investigating a video showing two police vehicles seemingly racing each other down the road.
“The Birmingham Police Department has been made aware of a video shared on social media that shows two Birmingham Police marked vehicles traveling on a public roadway engaged in what appears to be ‘racing’ activity,” a release from the department stated.
The TikTok video, which was uploaded Wednesday morning, is filmed from the back of one squad car and shows another squad car driving alongside it. The caption on the video reads “Birmingham’s finest. Racing down the road.”
According to the BPD, the person filming the video from the back of the car was unrestrained and did not appear to be in police custody at the time.
“The Birmingham Police Department does not condone this type of behavior,” the release stated. “The actions shown in the video do not reflect the core values of our department nor does it reflect the brand our leadership has worked diligently to promote.”
An investigation has been launched into the incident with the BPD Internal Affairs Division conducting the investigation. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/tiktok-video-shows-2-birmingham-police-cars-racing-one-another/ | 2022-07-28T00:34:09 | 0 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/tiktok-video-shows-2-birmingham-police-cars-racing-one-another/ |
FEDERAL WAY, Wash. — Crews are fighting a three-alarm apartment fire in Federal Way.
Firefighters are working to verify everyone has been evacuated from the building in the 35200 block of 21st Avenue SW.
No serious injuries have been reported, according to South King Fire.
At least one person had to be rescued from the third floor of the building.
The roof to the 244-unit building collapsed.
No additional information is available at this time.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
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ROGERS, Ark. — Arkansas students and teachers will be back in the classroom before we know it and with prices higher than usual this year, back-to-school shopping could be pretty expensive.
5NEWS had the chance to talk with Once Upon a Child, a children’s consignment shop in Northwest Arkansas and they said because of inflation they’ve seen more and more people coming through their doors.
With school just right around the corner, many families are getting ready to back to school shop which we all know can get pretty expensive, especially during this season of high inflation.
According to Lanee Barnhill with Once Upon a Child, they always plan to be busier around school time with kids needing a new back-to-school wardrobe.
“Usually in July we kind of see the uptick for getting ready for back-to-school and it really doesn’t taper off until about Christmas,” said Barnhill.
But this year they said they’re especially busy. This month alone they’ve seen a 10% increase in shoppers and they think high inflation rates could be one of the big reasons that more people are shopping second-hand with many shoppers relieved when they see the lower consignment store prices.
“Lots of customers come to us because of prices being so high and most of our items are 70% less than retail and you can buy sell and trade so we can buy items from our customers and save them money and they can trade and get more so and so we have had our increase already about 10% so far,” said Barnhill.
Beautiful Lives, an adult consignment shop in Fayetteville said they don’t expect to see a big back-to-school increase until U of A students are back on campus. But, overall in the last few months, they have seen an increase in shoppers.
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TEMPLE, Texas — The City of Temple is taking steps to address its policies on diversity, equity and inclusion. They've put together a commission that will consider whether to hire an outside firm that specializes in DEI initiatives.
The firm is called The Nova collective. According to its website, the Chicago based company is a women-owned consulting group that helps organizations give everyone an equitable opportunity to succeed.
If hired, Nova would evaluate the City Council, conduct a City employee survey, and look into Temple's strategic planning. The city says Nova would focus only on Temple as an employer and service provider
"The City will get some strategy and ideas of how we as an organization can be an employer of choice," Communications and Public Relations Manager for the City Kiara Nowlin, said. "We want to make sure our employees can be as successful as possible, because that's how our organization is going to operate optimally."
Community members that are for the initiative say it could bring more representation to Temple.
"To have somebody feel seen, to have someone feel validated, to have someone know they're not by themselves is liberating in itself," Temple community member, Takenya Battle, said.
Temple Community Member and business owner, Marquita Frank, said she doesn't feel as represented as she would like to be.
"I feel like I would be helpful to have more diversity and inclusion, only because you can get really good insight as to what is going on in the minds of minorities," Frank said.
Others, like Temple community member Rayford Brown, are opposed to the City bringing in The Nova Collective.
"We have the same goal, except they're lying they're goal is division," Brown said.
Brown and many others opposed to the DEI project have pointed to a video on the Nova Collective Facebook page that features a person in drag talking about how it has helped them to describe what their gender identity is.
Brown said those in drag and in the LGBTQ+ community don't meet Christian values.
Nowlin said anyone who is in support or opposed to Nova can share their opinions at open City council meetings.
"They can come and publicly share their thoughts and our city council will take their thoughts into consideration," Nowlin said.
Those opposed have voiced their concerns, like at the July 7 Temple City Council meeting, also shared publicly to YouTube.
"This commission, it's a diversity committee, but it's not representing diversity," said Temple citizen, Carole Owen. "I know it was stated that it is to represent minorities, but there are two large communities that are not given a seat at the table."
Owen went on to say there is a seat for women but not men.
"There is no seat for our men, the men's community, and men and boys are under great attack in our culture now," Owen said.
Owen also expressed concern about their not being someone from the white community on the committee.
"There's one very large group of people of color which are not represented and that is the concerns of the white community," Owen said.
Another community member stated said he believes the Nova Collective is a Marxist organization.
"Our concern is that we're inviting a trojan horse into our City that demoralizes us into Marxist ideals," said Joe Goodson.
Frank has a response to those opposed to City Council hiring in The Nova Collective.
"I would tell them, take a walk in my shoes," Frank said. "There are little things that people probably don't realize happen on a daily basis, no not all of it is probably because of the color of my skin, but some of it has to do with not being acknowledged."
As for Battle, she hopes that if this passes, the City of Temple will create more diverse organizations.
"And if the City could ramp up a little bit more with programs that allow people to just be themselves, I would 100 percent get behind that," Battle said.
The committee was scheduled to meet again on August 2. They will vote on whether to recommend that the city move forward with Nova. It would then be up to the full city council to give it final approval. | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/local/city-of-temple-evaluates-bring-in-outside-diversity-firm-community-members-weigh-in/500-c411ca1d-4656-4c5b-8264-4c48e8ac6ac2 | 2022-07-28T00:46:45 | 1 | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/local/city-of-temple-evaluates-bring-in-outside-diversity-firm-community-members-weigh-in/500-c411ca1d-4656-4c5b-8264-4c48e8ac6ac2 |
AMES — State resident undergraduates headed to any of Iowa’s three public universities this fall will pay 4.25% more than students did last year after the Board of Regents on Wednesday unanimously approved tuition increases across their campuses.
At Iowa State University and the University of Northern Iowa, the 4.25% hike applies to all students – including resident and non-resident graduate and undergraduate students.
The University of Iowa is imposing the same 4.25% increase to all its resident students – amounting to a $355 bump for undergraduates and a $443 hike for graduate students. But rather than applying the same percentage increase to non-residents at both levels, the UI is making even the dollar increase for students from outside Iowa – amounting to a 1.2% increase for non-resident undergrads and 1.5% increase for non-resident grad students.
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For students in costlier programs, the campuses have applied varying tuition rates across all levels – amounting to some bigger percent and dollar increases, like $2,000- to $3,000-plus hikes for some UI dentistry students.
The tuition increases – which the board said were compelled by weaker-than-requested funding increases from the Iowa Legislature – will amount to meaningful revenue bumps for the UI and ISU, when paired with enrollment projections, according to fiscal 2023 budget documents the board approved Wednesday.
The UI expects its tuition revenue to increase $20.1 million, or 4.3%, this year “with the expected tuition increases and enrollment changes.” ISU is looking at a $21.8 million bump in tuition revenue, 4.8% above last year, due – like the UI – to rate hikes and enrollment projections.
The UI projected tuition revenue increase is its biggest since at least 2017. ISU’s projected increase is its largest since 2018 – having budgeted for a $26 million tuition revenue bump in 2017.
UNI, unlike the UI and ISU, this year is expecting a drop in tuition revenue – despite its rate increases – possibly hinting at its enrollment projections, which have not been made public yet.
“With the projected enrollment and the proposed tuition rates, FY 2023 tuition revenues are $2.9 million less than the previous year’s budget,” according to regent documents.
Including this year, UNI has projected declining tuition revenue for five straight years – with its last increase coming in 2017, when it budgeted for a $2.6 million increase.
The campuses report heavy reliance on tuition revenue for their general operations.
The UI reports tuition comprises 63% of its $768 million general university revenue budget, with 28% coming from state appropriations. Tuition income accounts for 71% of ISU’s $674.8 million general university revenue, with 26% coming from the state.
UNI, conversely, reports 59% of its general operating revenue comes from state appropriations – with tuition accounting for 40% of budgeted revenue.
With the base tuition increases approved Wednesday, resident undergraduates will pay $8,711 at the UI; $8,678 at ISU; and $8,111 at UNI.
Combined with new fee and room and board rate increases, the total cost of attendance for resident undergraduates this coming year is estimated at $26,686 at UI; $23,471 at ISU; and $21,988 at UNI. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/education/iowa-regents-approve-4-25-tuition-hike-for-fall/article_c37f6b99-5473-55b3-8934-313ce6973c72.html | 2022-07-28T00:53:05 | 1 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/education/iowa-regents-approve-4-25-tuition-hike-for-fall/article_c37f6b99-5473-55b3-8934-313ce6973c72.html |
Four adult-use cannabis dispensary applications have been approved in Jersey City, including one from actor and rapper Ice-T.
The proposed dispensary is called "Medicine Woman," and is co-owned by the "Law and Order: SVU" actor as well as Playboy playmate Charis Burrett.
Ice-T has a home in Edgewater, but told the board he wanted to put his dispensary in Jersey City because it would be better for business.
All four approved applications now have to be approved by the city planning board and the state before they can officially open up shop. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/marijuana-dispensary-co-owned-by-ice-t-may-soon-be-coming-to-nj/3798116/ | 2022-07-28T01:00:30 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/marijuana-dispensary-co-owned-by-ice-t-may-soon-be-coming-to-nj/3798116/ |
SAN ANTONIO — The mayor of Grey Forest is denying rumors of discussions that the city's police chief was going to be fired. This comes after a heated six-hour city council meeting on Sunday.
Grey Forest Mayor Mandie Waldrop, who assumed the role in 2022, released a statement Wednesday saying Police Chief Rene Rodriguez's job was never on the line.
Grey Forest is a small town near Helotes with a population of about 500 people. Recent documents showed tension between the mayor and police chief stemming from a traffic stop in 2021.
Documents show Waldrop received two warning citations from Reserve Officer Charles Marcus. A second officer who witnessed the stop claimed there were no irregularities during the encounter. However, Waldrop disagreed.
She claimed Officer Marcus yanked her out of the car and placed her on the hood. She later recanted that story and ended up telling four versions of it, according to documents by Chief Rodriguez, who acknowledged Waldrop's rise to mayor could make things difficult as they worked together.
The tensions increased when the mayor reportedly gave the police department a revised list of expectations. That led Chief Rodriguez to consider resignation, saying he would be burning time off. The mayor called that "no call/no show".
At a special city council meeting Sunday, Chief Rodriguez believed he would be terminated.
The mayor denies that claim.
“I have not mentioned that to him and I don’t feel like I’ve given that much thought,” Waldrop said.
She said the meeting was about the chief adhering to the list of expectations, however, the chief believed council members would view the meeting differently.
“I think they're going to realize whats being said is camouflaged to the real reason we are here today and in my opinion: it’s just a lie that got out of hand and snowballed,” Chief Rodriguez said.
A statement from the City Attorney's office says no action was taken after Sunday's meeting.
"We are aware many citizens may have questions regarding the special council meeting which occurred on Sunday, July 24, 2022, where the subject of the police department and the duties of the chief of police were discussed. The city council appreciates citizens’ attendance and willingness to provide input regarding their support or criticism regarding city operations.
It is important to understand the issues discussed were not intended and did not include discussion about the termination of the chief of police. Rather it was an operational discussion regarding how the council can best facilitate the coordination between the police department, through the chief of police, and the mayor’s office.
After many hours of discussion, the council concluded the meeting and did not feel any action was needed at this time. Grey Forest faces many obstacles in the coming years. Future planning is needed to best prepare the city. The challenges discussed by the city council will not be solved in a single meeting. Efforts going forward will be implemented to facilitate collaborative efforts between the office of the chief and the mayor. The wellbeing of the citizens is of paramount importance to all."
KENS 5 will continue to follow this story and give updates as the are received. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/grey-forest-mayor-denies-discussions-terminating-police-chief-rene-rodriguez/273-86a38610-3bad-41e1-a360-3f988746311c | 2022-07-28T01:01:59 | 1 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/grey-forest-mayor-denies-discussions-terminating-police-chief-rene-rodriguez/273-86a38610-3bad-41e1-a360-3f988746311c |
SAN ANTONIO — When it comes to men and low testosterone, it can be a very tricky topic to talk about.
Testosterone is a hormone that is important for bone growth. And when it is deficient in men, not only can that mean bone fractures, but also lack of energy, fatigue, and what many men fear, a change in their libido.
"We have patients that have symptoms of testosterone deficiency and we check their blood count and it's low," said Dr. Robert Svatek, who is a urologist with University Health and UT Health San Antonio.
He says low testosterone or "low-T" can also affect a man's ability to father children. Dr. Svatek said, "Testosterone is related to the ability to conceive. And so men with infertility or a couple of infertility, testosterone deficiency, may be associated with that problem."
Other symptoms of low-T include loss of body hair, less beard growth, loss of lean muscle mass, feeling very tired all the time, and obesity. Over the long term, it can also lead to serious health problems.
Dr. Svatek told us, "Testosterone deficiency can lead to problems with bone loss, increased risk of fractures, anemia -- so we counsel them on the health effects of normal testosterone."
Some men may develop low-T from damage to testicles by accident, chemotherapy or radiation, pituitary gland disease leading to hormone deficiency, an infection, or an autoimmune disease.
And it isn't a disease that only affects young men, but also in older men that may have what appears to be anemia. Dr. Svatek added, "Anemia of an unknown explanation in an older male -- that may be something that would prompt testosterone reevaluation, or an older male that has had a worsening of fatigue or decreased energy."
Dr. Svatek also says if you think you have low testosterone, not to use over-the-counter methods of treatment, but to talk to your primary care physician and a urologist so they can do a baseline test and get you on the right track to help correct your symptoms.
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To learn more about low testosterone symptoms, diagnosis and treatment click here. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/outreach/wear-the-gown/diagnosing-and-treating-low-testosterone-wear-the-gown/273-55261c69-f813-4942-a7dc-0e5f026bcabf | 2022-07-28T01:02:05 | 1 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/outreach/wear-the-gown/diagnosing-and-treating-low-testosterone-wear-the-gown/273-55261c69-f813-4942-a7dc-0e5f026bcabf |
DALLAS — A Dallas County jury found Charter Communications, which also operates as Spectrum, acted negligently in hiring a field technician who killed one of its customers. The company now owes billions of dollars in damages.
The jury awarded $7 billion in punitive damages against Charter for "systemic safety failures" in connection to the 2019 murder of 83-year-old Betty Thomas by one of the technicians. Earlier in June, a jury also said Charter had to pay 90% of $375 million in compensatory damages to Thomas' family.
During this June verdict, the jury found Charter liable for the robbery and stabbing death of Thomas by a company employee. In December 2019, officers arrested 43-year-old Roy Holden Jr., and he later pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to life in prison in April 2021.
Dallas-based Hamilton Wingo represented the family in this case.
“This was a shocking breach of faith by a company that sends workers inside millions of homes every year,” Hamilton Wingo trial lawyer Chris Hamilton said. “The jury in this case was thoughtful and attentive to the evidence. This verdict justly reflects the extensive evidence regarding the nature of the harm caused by Charter Spectrum’s gross negligence and reckless misconduct. For the safety of the American public, we can only hope that Charter Spectrum and its shareholders are listening.”
The complaint against Charter from the victim's family said the cable company got rid of an employee screening program that Time Warner Cable had in place when Charter bought the multiple-system operator in 2016. Spectrum allegedly hired Holden without verifying his employment history, which would have shown he lied about his work history.
A review of Holden's previous employers would have revealed firings for forgery, falsifying documents and harassment of fellow employees, according to trial testimony.
Holden was the Spectrum field technician who visited Thomas' house back in December 2019 to help with her phone line. He went back to her place the next day using a Spectrum van and stabbed her with a utility knife supplied by the cable company.
Authorities discovered Thomas' body after responding to an unconscious person call. According to detectives, Thomas had multiple stab wounds and was dead when officers arrived.
Holden took her credit cards and went on a "spending spree," attorneys said in June. They also said Thomas' death could have been prevented and Spectrum had "systemic failures" in its hiring practice.
In the days leading up to Thomas' murder, Holden allegedly made multiple outcries to supervisors about significant personal and financial issues having to do with a divorce that left him no money or a place to stay, according to trial testimony. He also allegedly broke down crying in a meeting telling his supervisor he was not OK.
Immediately after being denied money, the evidence showed he began scamming elderly female Spectrum cable customers by stealing their credit cards and checks, testimony revealed.
Holden allegedly had complete unauthorized access to his Spectrum vehicle, and in the weeks preceding the murder, had likely been sleeping in the van.
According to testimony, Spectrum ignored requests by police and prosecutors to preserve evidence. One Spectrum security executive testified the company was “not necessarily” obligated to tell the truth or cooperate with police.
After Thomas' family filed the lawsuit, Hamilton Wingo said Spectrum attorneys used a forged document to try and force the lawsuit into a closed-door arbitration, where the results would have been secret and damages for the murder would have been limited to the amount of Thomas’ final bill.
The jury found that Spectrum committed forgery beyond a reasonable doubt, which is conduct that constitutes a first-degree felony under Texas law, according to Hamilton Wingo.
Attorneys said Thomas' family later received a bill from Spectrum that included a $58 charge for the murderer’s service call and continued to receive bills for service weeks after Thomas died.
During the trial, it was also revealed there had been more than 2,500 thefts by Spectrum employees against customers in the past several years, which the company refused to investigate or report to police.
“Charter Spectrum had too many chances to prevent this tragedy, and the company showed a complete disregard for the safety of its customers. Worse, the trial reveals how vulnerable Charter Spectrum customers remain today at the hands of a company that appears not to care about public safety,” Hamilton Wingo trial lawyer Ray Khirallah said. “This verdict fairly reflects the extent of the evidence against Charter Spectrum and the dangerous nature of the company’s serious misconduct and violations of the law.” | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/spectrum-7-billion-punitive-damages-murder-of-83-year-old-texas-customer/287-11135ab6-58f9-467b-9383-f8d60f0de83c | 2022-07-28T01:02:11 | 1 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/spectrum-7-billion-punitive-damages-murder-of-83-year-old-texas-customer/287-11135ab6-58f9-467b-9383-f8d60f0de83c |
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A man has died from a presumable drowning after crews responded to reports of an unresponsive man in the Sandy River, Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office said.
At 2:40 p.m. on Wednesday, deputies responded to the report in the Oxbow Park area, MCSO said.
On the scene, deputies reportedly fanned out across the river bank as Gresham Fire Department launched a river rescue raft.
Fire crews found the man, who has not been identified, and took him to the shore for medical attention; however, paramedics said the man died at the scene. Officials said he presumably drowned.
This is a developing story. | https://www.koin.com/local/multnomah-county/mcso-man-presumably-drowns-in-sandy-river/ | 2022-07-28T01:10:18 | 1 | https://www.koin.com/local/multnomah-county/mcso-man-presumably-drowns-in-sandy-river/ |
A drug robbery appears to be the motive behind a Lincoln man's killing last week on his boat at Branched Oak Lake, investigators said in court records filed Wednesday and since sealed.
Taban Rik, the 22-year-old Lincoln man charged Wednesday with Benjamin J. Case's murder, had previously visited Case on his boat but on July 19 boarded, shot him twice and went in search of the drugs, Lancaster County Sheriff's Investigator Jeremy Schwarz alleged in the new court records.
Rik, who now faces six felony charges including first-degree murder, is accused of climbing aboard Case's 1992 Bayliner Sierra around 11:20 p.m. and shooting Case twice — in the neck and head — when Case came out of the cabin.
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Case collapsed.
The shooter, in a ski mask, then told the four others onboard to move to the front of the boat and stay off their phones. He threatened to shoot them and asked "where the green bag was at," according to the affidavit for Rik's arrest.
Schwarz said a fight ensued between the shooter and one of the men onboard, "which prevented additional shots from being fired before the black male fled to the parking lot."
He sped away in a maroon car.
Deputy John Brady drove past the car, believed to be Rik's Toyota Camry, before reaching the marina at 11:33 p.m., nine minutes after the 911 call, Schwarz said in the affidavit. Brady helped with first aid until Raymond Rescue arrived.
But they couldn't save Case, who died at the scene.
A search warrant turned up the sought-after green bag, which contained drugs, drug paraphernalia and a 9 mm Luger shell casing.
Through the investigation that followed, investigators learned Case had sold "cocaine, marijuana, mushrooms and possibly methamphetamine to people at Branched Oak Lake," according to court records.
An anonymous tipster pointed the sheriff's office toward Rik, a parolee who had been out of prison for less than four months before last week's shooting.
The tipster also alleged Rik was involved in the shooting at 28th and T on July 18 that sent four people to the hospital, one of them critically wounded.
On Wednesday, Schwarz said deputies provided that information to Lincoln Police. Rik hasn't been charged in that case.
Schwarz said sheriff's investigators are still exploring the motive in Case's killing and the possibility that others may have been involved, and are asking anyone with information or evidence, including Rik's iPhone, to contact the department.
Investigators believe Rik also sold his iPhone 7+ two days after the shooting, replacing it with a Nokia flip-style phone. He was arrested on Saturday.
Prosecutors on Wednesday charged Rik with six felonies, including first-degree murder, use of a firearm to commit a felony, possession of a firearm by a prohibited person and attempted robbery.
Rik is being held at the Lancaster County jail on a $5 million percentage bond, meaning he would have to pay $500,000 to be released. | https://journalstar.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/branched-oak-lake-murder-suspect-sought-drugs-after-shooting-boat-owner-sheriffs-investigator-alleges/article_e0d2f222-8ebd-5db6-b914-09339575f952.html | 2022-07-28T01:10:34 | 0 | https://journalstar.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/branched-oak-lake-murder-suspect-sought-drugs-after-shooting-boat-owner-sheriffs-investigator-alleges/article_e0d2f222-8ebd-5db6-b914-09339575f952.html |
In a matter of two hours on Sunday, a 59-year-old Lincoln man kidnapped a 12-year-old girl, sexually assaulted her at his house and returned her to her home in northwest Lincoln, police alleged in court records.
Mensah L. Gozo was arrested Sunday and charged Tuesday with first-degree sexual assault of a child and felony child enticement for his alleged role in the seemingly random crime, which began around 10 a.m. Sunday when the girl was reported missing, according to police.
It's unclear if Gozo had any prior contact with the child before Sunday; their relationship is not addressed in court filings.
In court records, Lincoln Police Investigator Tyler Nitz said Gozo returned the girl home shortly before noon Sunday, as officers "searched relentlessly" for the girl in northwest Lincoln.
The 12-year-old told investigators Gozo picked her up from the side of the road, drove her to his house at 2274 W St. and sexually assaulted her, Nitz said in the affidavit for Gozo's arrest.
A Kansas City, Missouri, native, Andrew Wegley joined the Journal Star as breaking news reporter after graduating from Northwest Missouri State University in May 2021.
A Lincoln therapist and drug and alcohol counselor has had her mental health practitioner license revoked over allegations that she befriended a client and took thousands in cash and trips from her.
Two men had found Kurt Roe's boat floating unattended Saturday afternoon and towed it back to the marina, alerting lake staff of the situation. His body was found Sunday.
Even with a suspect in custody, the Lancaster County Sheriff's Office says the investigation into the Branched Oak Lake killing remains active, sharing few details. "The investigators told me less is better," the sheriff said.
In addition to the assault charge, the 30-year-old is accused of taking $3,375 from a client, meant to be wired to relative in Vietnam, and instead gambling the money away at a Council Bluffs casino, police said.
The scam — which went on for at least four days — involved callers purporting to be from Amazon and the DEA, who instructed the woman to leave bags of cash and gold outside of her northwest Lincoln home.
A 29-year-old Lincoln man was arrested Friday after police say his dispute with another man on a StarTran bus ultimately devolved into a stabbing in downtown Lincoln.
Inside the Chevy, officers found an AR15-style rifle and a 50-round magazine attachment fit for a Glock 9 mm handgun, according to police. It's unclear if either the rifle or handgun ammunition matched casings left behind.
Lincoln Police first responded to the building Tuesday after a 31-year-old man deployed pepper spray at another man, exposing two children to the spray. | https://journalstar.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/lincoln-man-kidnapped-sexually-assaulted-girl-before-returning-her-home-police-say/article_865ac5af-e6fd-5bce-96cf-e3dcaad05194.html | 2022-07-28T01:10:41 | 1 | https://journalstar.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/lincoln-man-kidnapped-sexually-assaulted-girl-before-returning-her-home-police-say/article_865ac5af-e6fd-5bce-96cf-e3dcaad05194.html |
Norman Rockwell's "The County Agricultural Agent" is on display at the Sheldon Museum of Art.
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Norman Rockwell's "The County Agricultural Agent" (left), Thomas Eakins' "Jennie Dean Kershaw," Vik Muniz's "After Donald Judd, Untitled" and on the floor "Magnesium-Copper Diple (East/West)" by Carl Andre are part of "Bracketing the Reading" at Sheldon Museum of Art.
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While working this month in Nebraska, Peggy Montarsi arranged to view the Norman Rockwell painting that features her Indiana farm family, including her father, grandparents and aunts.
This spring's storms, which caused severe hail damage to many farms in the region, brought crop adjuster Peggy Montarsi from Indiana.
And while here, she visited a piece of her family's history.
In a break from inspecting farms from Kearney to Lincoln, Montarsi made a stop at the Sheldon Museum of Art, where a big piece of her heritage is part of the collection.
The Norman Rockwell painting titled "The County Agricultural Agent" features Montarsi's father, grandparents and aunts. They can be seen surrounded by animals and focused on Herald Rippey, an ag expert in Indiana.
When Rockwell visited the Steed family in 1947, they had no idea who he was.
"They were just happy to be getting their picture taken and to be promoting agricultural life," Montarsi said.
The painting includes Montarsi's grandfather Donald Steed, her aunt Jama Steed, Rippey, her father Larry Steed, aunt Sharon Steed and grandmother Martha Steed.
The painting, which was completed and published in the Saturday Evening Post on July 24, 1948, hasn't been displayed in Indiana since its creation.
As part of Rockwell's American Life exhibition, the painting had been in the Norman Rockwell Museum at its former location in Vermont before University of Nebraska alumnus Nathan Gold purchased it in 1951.
The painting stayed in Gold's department store in Lincoln for 18 years before Gold gifted it to the university.
Since then, the painting has been displayed at various locations on the UNL campus, a long way from Indiana.
The museum is closed for the summer, but when university officials learned that Montarsi was in Nebraska and heard about her connection to the painting, they worked to arrange Wednesday's tour.
"We all have smaller versions of the painting, everyone in the family including grandchildren, but seeing the original blows my mind," Montarsi said. "I could stare at it for hours."
With her recent sale of her family's farm, Montarsi says the Rockwell painting is one of the last ties to an important piece of history.
"Two hundred acres doesn't make nearly as much as it did when my great-grandfather first purchased the land back in 1824, so we had to say goodbye, and this is all we have left," Montarsi said.
This year, the painting will be featured as a part of the Sheldon's "Clocking In: Visions of Labor" exhibit that challenges stereotypes in the workforce and the value placed on particular jobs.
Erin Hanas, a curator at the museum, says the Rockwell painting will represent agricultural labor in the exhibit.
"The County Agricultural Agent," along with five other paintings, can be viewed from Aug. 16 through Dec. 22.
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Norman Rockwell's "The County Agricultural Agent" (left), Thomas Eakins' "Jennie Dean Kershaw," Vik Muniz's "After Donald Judd, Untitled" and on the floor "Magnesium-Copper Diple (East/West)" by Carl Andre are part of "Bracketing the Reading" at Sheldon Museum of Art.
While working this month in Nebraska, Peggy Montarsi arranged to view the Norman Rockwell painting that features her Indiana farm family, including her father, grandparents and aunts. | https://journalstar.com/news/local/indiana-woman-gets-first-look-at-enduring-piece-of-her-familys-history-a-rockwell-painting/article_50d1074e-f716-586a-865c-0faebb17a984.html | 2022-07-28T01:10:47 | 1 | https://journalstar.com/news/local/indiana-woman-gets-first-look-at-enduring-piece-of-her-familys-history-a-rockwell-painting/article_50d1074e-f716-586a-865c-0faebb17a984.html |
PALMETTO, Fla. — A South Carolina teen living with a rare genetic eye disease is getting help from an organization in the Tampa Bay area.
South Carolina teen Emily Miller spent three weeks at the Southeastern Guide Dog Camp in Palmetto. She was there to get acquainted with a guide dog of her own before heading home.
"His name is Hugo and he is a yellow Lab. He's a lot tinier than the rest of the dogs in the class but he's a very sweet boy and very energetic," Miller said.
Hugo's energy fits right in with his mission to help Emily with her vision and guide her away from people and obstacles that could cause her injury.
The teen has dealt with a degenerative eye condition called Stargardt's disease since she was a child.
She said she has lost her core vision and some of her peripheral as well. From her point of view, most things appear blurry and she would keep bumping into things.
"Ever since I was little, I was always nervous to tell people about my vision. I used to go on walks by myself sometimes and there would be a person coming towards me and I would completely miss them," Miller said.
With a guide dog of her own, she said she can now look forward to being independent.
"I'm in high school and then soon going to college so the dog needs to have some energy to be ready to go to the next class," Miller said.
Southeastern Guide Dogs has about 100 adult dogs in training to help visually impaired people.
"They've gotten more and more skilled at working together as a team, so he's (Hugo) learned how to stop at different types of curbs and how to keep her on her line of travel so that she doesn't step off a curb unexpectedly or enter the road without realizing it," Caitlin O'Brien said, senior trainer with Southeastern Guide Dog.
O'Brien said she had to train Hugo to meet the unique needs of a teenage girl like Miller, including getting familiar with the horses she rides during her free time.
"We've done more mall routes so that Hugo gets a lot more experience with that type of environment," O'Brien said.
Hugo was matched with Miller at no cost to her family.
"I feel like I could finally and look up and see a lot of the things around me that I couldn't see before," Miller said.
Southeastern Guide Dogs services are supported by community donations. The program said it needs volunteer caretakers to train the dogs on basic life skills until they are around 18 months old, which is the age many of the dogs head in to be enrolled in guide dog school. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/manateecounty/south-carolina-teen-palmetto-guide-dog/67-c8d5c87c-b547-432e-8b89-5ab747fdfe54 | 2022-07-28T01:13:06 | 1 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/manateecounty/south-carolina-teen-palmetto-guide-dog/67-c8d5c87c-b547-432e-8b89-5ab747fdfe54 |
MAINE, USA — American Aquafarms pulled out of the lawsuit it filed appealing the state's decision to terminate the company's proposed salmon farm project on Tuesday.
The project has been the subject of controversy among lobstermen and activist groups who feared the project would negatively impact the environmental waters near Acadia National Park.
According to a news release issued by Protect Maine’s Fishing Heritage Foundation on Tuesday, last April, the Maine Department of Marine Resources dismissed American Aquafarms' application for leases on two sixty-acre sites in Frenchman Bay, saying it repeatedly failed to find a state-approved hatchery for salmon eggs.
"The company subsequently filed suit against the Maine DMR in Cumberland County Superior Court to overturn the department’s action," the release states.
Frenchman Bay United, the coalition that led the effort against the massive proposed industrial salmon farm in the waters beside Acadia National Park, hailed American Aquafarms' decision on Tuesday, according to the release.
“As an intervenor on behalf of the Maine DMR, Frenchman Bay United agreed to the dismissal of this lawsuit,” FBU Board President Henry Sharpe said in the release. “We have always believed that DMR made the right decision in refusing to accept the company’s lease applications and that this lawsuit had little merit. We again call on American Aquafarms to end any plans it may have to re-apply for permits for this or other destructive and highly polluting projects.”
The company told the Portland Press Herald Tuesday night that it still plans to submit a new application in the future.
"The 'Stipulation of Dismissal' filed with the court yesterday and agreed to by lawyers for the state and Frenchman Bay United was done so 'with prejudice,' meaning that American Aquafarms cannot refile the same claim again and must start the permitting process from the beginning if it comes back with a similar project," the release stated.
“We hope that this is the end for American Aquafarms, but we remain vigilant and ready to challenge any subsequent applications they may file that would jeopardize Maine’s brand: clean water, thriving natural habitats, pristine wilderness, and a robust, owner-operated working waterfront," Sharpe said. "We’ll also continue to push science-based policies for legislative and regulatory change that champion the same virtues, ones that prevent the industrialization of our iconic coastline." | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/american-aquafarms-withdraws-from-salmon-farm-project-lawsuit-maine-environment/97-38858cf9-5464-47d3-b6ca-9063fbe33138 | 2022-07-28T01:13:12 | 0 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/american-aquafarms-withdraws-from-salmon-farm-project-lawsuit-maine-environment/97-38858cf9-5464-47d3-b6ca-9063fbe33138 |
BANGOR, Maine — The City of Bangor is looking at what works in the city and what needs to be worked on.
On Wednesday, Bangor moved to phase three of its 2022 comprehensive plan.
It released a draft outlining the city’s vision statement and goals, all of which came from reviewing public comments and input from city staff.
Fourteen key themes were identified in the draft, including issues surrounding housing in Bangor, addressing homelessness, and maintaining city infrastructure.
The draft will serve to encourage discussion in the coming weeks during public and internal comments on the key issues.
“Once we’ve received comments from people over the next couple weeks, then we will fine-tune that document. And then, we will use that to create more policy statements [and] more specific action items. You know it is great to say, ‘We want to fix housing.’ Well, the action steps say, ‘This is how we are going to do it.’” Anne Krieg, planning officer for Bangor, said.
Now that the Comprehensive Plan draft has been released, public comment will be held on Tuesday. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/bangors-comprehensive-plan-moves-to-phase-three-maine/97-5e571385-459b-46d5-b4c5-257c1f3f753f | 2022-07-28T01:13:19 | 0 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/bangors-comprehensive-plan-moves-to-phase-three-maine/97-5e571385-459b-46d5-b4c5-257c1f3f753f |
PORTLAND, Maine — A Roman Catholic priest is returning to active ministry after an investigation into allegations of sexual abuse, the Diocese of Portland said Wednesday.
The diocese said its investigation into the Rev. Robert Vaillancourt took a year. The allegations concerned sexual abuse of girls in the 1980s.
The diocese said in a statement that the allegations were “determined to be unfounded.” It said Vaillancourt has not received a new assignment from the diocese yet.
Vaillancourt was placed on administrative leave in July 2021 after the diocese received the first complaint. The diocese then received a second allegation from an attorney representing another woman.
Vaillancourt denied any wrongdoing at the time of the accusations and the diocese said he cooperated with the investigation. He is a native of Lewiston who has served at parishes around the state. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/maine-diocese-says-priest-will-return-to-ministry-portland-roman-catholic-church-ministry-investigation-allegations/97-3fd75ee9-1634-4610-a19d-e40714477267 | 2022-07-28T01:13:25 | 1 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/maine-diocese-says-priest-will-return-to-ministry-portland-roman-catholic-church-ministry-investigation-allegations/97-3fd75ee9-1634-4610-a19d-e40714477267 |
BIDDEFORD, Maine — State and community leaders gathered in Biddeford Wednesday afternoon to mark the commissioning of the new Saco River Drinking Water Resource Center.
The facility will provide clean drinking water for the towns of Biddeford, Saco, Old Orchard Beach, and Pine Point, replacing the original water treatment facility built 138 years ago.
"We often take our drinking water for granted," Maine Water President Mark Vannoy said. "To be able to take the public through this new drinking water center and see how we treat the water, how we treat the Saco River, and see how we deliver it to the tap every day — it's just a really exciting day for us."
According to Maine Water, which will operate the new facility, they will be able to produce 12 million gallons of clean water each day. Town leaders, like Biddeford Mayor Alan Casavant, hope this will allow the region to continue its growth.
"When you have economic development and [a] lot of interest in the community, you want to make sure you have the necessary services that they need," Casavant said. "So for example, if we look at breweries or distilleries, or things of that nature, they use a lot of water. And having the availability of good, clean water is really an enticement for them to move here."
The new facility costs $60 million to be constructed. Maine Water says by 2023, the facility's electrical needs will be powered by a solar array on the property.
The new facility is located just off of South Street in Biddeford. The previous facility was built closer to the river, on the flood plain of the Saco River. The new facility is further away, making it less susceptible to serious floods.
The Saco River Drinking Water Resource Center has also been recognized for its sustainability. It received the Silver Award from the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure.
Outside of the building, there's also a 10,000 square-foot pollinator garden, surrounded by 250 acres of protected land, along with wetland restoration in the area.
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For the latest breaking news, weather, and traffic alerts, download the NEWS CENTER Maine mobile app. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/new-water-treatment-facility-serving-biddeford-saco-region-opens-maine/97-1927650c-9e17-44a4-a7a8-f895e7f2e295 | 2022-07-28T01:13:31 | 0 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/new-water-treatment-facility-serving-biddeford-saco-region-opens-maine/97-1927650c-9e17-44a4-a7a8-f895e7f2e295 |
PORTLAND, Maine — Former Mariners player and assistant coach, Terrence Wallin, has been promoted to head coach of the Maine Mariners.
According to a news release issued by the Maine Mariners, the ECHL Affiliate of the Boston Bruins, on Wednesday, Wallin's promotion makes him the third head coach in team history following Ben Guite (2021-22) and Riley Armstrong (2018-21).
Before his promotion, Wallin was the assistant coach of the Mariners last season, where he served under Ben Guite, who accepted the head coaching role at Bowdoin College on July 11, according to the release.
Wallin has been involved with the Mariners organization for some time now, as he spent the final two seasons of his playing career with them from 2018 to 2020, the release says.
“It is incredibly exciting to promote Terrence Wallin to the head coach position,” Adam Goldberg, Mariners vice president of business operations, said in the release. “Terrence was one of the first Mariners and he has earned the right to lead the team on the ice. Not only does he have a high hockey IQ, but he is also someone that is willing, able, and excited to be a part of the community. He will lead the players by example and the fans should be excited about the head coach we have behind the bench.”
Originally from Yardley, Pennsylvania, Wallin also has roots in Kennebunk with a family home residing there. According to the release, his professional hockey career was five seasons long, where he rose all the way from the Southern Professional Hockey League (SPHL) to the American Hockey League.
Wallin graduated from the University of Massachusetts-Lowell in 2015 and then began his pro hockey career with the SPHL’s Peoria Rivermen in the 2015 to 2016 season, the release says.
"The Adirondack Thunder gave him his first ECHL opportunity later that season, and after stops back to Peoria and out to Rapid City (ECHL), he settled back with the Thunder for 2017-18, where he enjoyed the best season of his pro career – 50 points in 59 games," the release states. "It was also during that season that Wallin reached the AHL for the first time, playing four games for the Binghamton Senators."
The following September, Wallin was traded to the Mariners, "marking the first trade in team history, where he became an alternate captain on the inaugural Mariners squad and would spend a significant portion of 2018 to 2019 with the Mariners AHL affiliate at the time, the Hartford Wolf Pack," according to the release.
After that, Wallin played one more campaign wearing a Maine uniform in the 2019 to 2020 season, marking the last of his career, the release says. Wallin finished in the top four in team scoring in during his two years with the Mariners. He scored 23 goals in the 2019 to 2020 season, which tied him for the best mark on the team alongside Dillan Fox. Overall, as a Mariner, Wallin achieved 73 points made up of 34 goals and 39 assists in 97 career games. Wallin played 230 career ECHL games as a whole, the release states.
“It's a huge honor to be named the third head coach of the Mariners,” Wallin said in the release. “Obviously, the previous two have had significant impacts on my development not only as a player but a coach. I can't thank Danny [Briere], Ben [Guite], and Riley [Armstrong] enough for all they've done for me to get to this position. This city means a lot to me and I'm so happy that I'm able to step in and lead the Mariners."
“Wally’s knowledge of the game, his ability to relate to players and his work ethic make him a great choice,” Ben Guite, former Mariners head coach, said in the release. “While we worked together last season, he had a hand in every facet of the Mariners program and gained invaluable experience that prepared him for this new challenge. I am very excited for him.”
Prior to Wallin's promotion as head coach, he already has experience coaching elsewhere. He founded “Evolution Hockey” in 2019, a series of Maine-based hockey camps created to teach skill development to players of all ages, according to the release. He also took over the Southern Maine Youth Hockey travel program, now known as the Maine Evolution, in the summer of 2020.
“It's crazy to think that four years ago I was asking for a trade here and now I've had the chance to play two years, go through a pandemic, get heavily involved in the community, be the assistant for a year and now have the honor to be the head coach,” Wallin said in the release. “Not many guys can say they played, were an assistant coach and then head coach for the same team and I'm proud to do it in a place that me and my family have grown to love.”
Now, with his new promotion ahead of him, he will begin the search for his assistant coach.
More NEWS CENTER Maine stories | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/terrence-wallin-promoted-to-maine-mariners-head-coach-sports-hockey/97-234b21b6-37df-40d0-809b-49f4fc99792c | 2022-07-28T01:13:37 | 1 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/terrence-wallin-promoted-to-maine-mariners-head-coach-sports-hockey/97-234b21b6-37df-40d0-809b-49f4fc99792c |
PORTLAND, Maine — People who are now traveling with easing COVID-19 restrictions may encounter an issue if they've legally changed their names since getting vaccinated.
Some people who have gotten married, divorced, or otherwise legally changed their name may have COVID-19 vaccination cards that no longer match their forms of identification, like a passport.
Aimee in Portland asked us if she can get a replacement card because of the name change.
THE QUESTION
"I legally changed my name, and now my COVID-19 vaccination card and my ID don't match. Can I get a new card?"
THE SOURCES
- U.S. CDC
- Maine CDC
- MaineHealth
- Northern Light Health
THE ANSWER
It's true, but it needs context: Not all state health departments can replace your actual COVID-19 vaccination card. Some can only send you a copy of your immunization history, which would include COVID-19 shots.
WHAT WE FOUND
According to the U.S. CDC, states have Immunization Information Systems, which keep track of people's vaccine history, including chickenpox, measles, mumps, rubella, and more.
In Maine, the CDC said the Maine Immunization Program cannot provide a replacement CDC COVID-19 vaccine card. If you lost your COVID-19 vaccine card, you can request a copy of your immunization record, which includes the same information as the vaccine card, by completing the request form.
Other states, like Massachusetts and New Hampshire, offer specific places to request amendments to your vaccine record if you have an old phone number listed or a name misspelled.
A Maine CDC spokesperson did not respond immediately to request for comment, but its website shows no indication of a similar section.
Northern Light Health advises people to contact their primary care providers to start the process of updating their medical record/patient portal. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/verify-yes-some-states-can-help-replace-your-covid-19-vaccination-card-if-you-legally-change-your-name-appointment/97-a85ca206-8b9f-4aef-855f-2a0f3f0488c1 | 2022-07-28T01:13:43 | 1 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/verify-yes-some-states-can-help-replace-your-covid-19-vaccination-card-if-you-legally-change-your-name-appointment/97-a85ca206-8b9f-4aef-855f-2a0f3f0488c1 |
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